Is this possible ? inherit group permissions
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon May 23 06:20:00 PDT 2005
cs <cs-fbsd at ctzen.com> writes:
> For a directory, e.g. foo/, if I chmod 775 foo/, is it possible for
> newly created files and directories under foo/ to automagically
> inherit the group permissions of foo ?
>
> e.g.
> touch foo/test would be rw-rw-r--
> mkdir foo/sub would be rwxrwxr-x
>
> I am looking for a non umask solution.
>
> I seem to remember in debian, I was able to make the group permissions
> of the parent directory special for this magic to occur.
>
> I wonder if there is something similar in FBSD.
If you set the suid bit, both owner *and* group will be set.
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