Re: [SLUG] More Permissions

From: Paul Braman (aeon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 22:17:59 EST


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:

> joe is a member of groups joe and web.
>
> Now, when joe copies the files, they show up as belonging to user joe
> and group joe. Other than adding a chown step at the end of copying, is
> there any other way to make files that joe copies to these directories
> belong to joe or root, with a group of web? This last is the important
> part.

I think you would need to make joe's *default* group be web.

That is, if joe logs on and issues the command:

    touch some.file

it better be a joe/web file. This is set up in the user profile
(/etc/passwd).

That's my first thought, anyway.

Paul Braman
aeon@tampabay.rr.com



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