Orininal Posting:
>Hello Fellow Managers,
>
> I have a number of users who belong to two groups in /etc/group.
>Their primary group is softdev, but to be able to become superuser they need
>to be in the system group as well. When these people create a file the
>group ownership is system rather than softdev. They need to be creating the
>files so that the group is softdev and not system. Does anybody have any
>ideas on how to work around this short of typing chgrp softdev on every file
>created?
>
The solution is that the group ownership of the current directory is applied
to any file (or directory) created in the current directory. This is a BSD
enhancement to UNIX. Once I changed the group on the current directory all
of the files that I created had the group that I wanted.
Thanks to the following people:
Ross Alexander
Jay Shen
Tom Rioux
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Doug Johnson
Michael A. Crowley
Henry A. Flogel
Eric Bennett
lscott_at_zk3.dec.com
Casey Spangler
Tom Webster
Boguslaw Kempny
Craig C. Hopewell
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Scott "Scottie" McCracken scottm_at_Synergex.com
PVCS Project Manager (916)853-0312
Synergex FAX (916)635-6549
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Gold River, CA 95670
Received on Tue Feb 25 1997 - 16:55:08 NZDT