Primary group and parent dir

[James]

On 10/30/07, Alexey Vlasov <renton at 1gb.ru> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Linux:
> $ id
> uid=42451(u42451) gid=155(clients) groups=155(clients), 42451(u42451)
>
> $ ls -la
> drwx--x---   7    u42451   www       512   29 oct 19:33 .
> drwxr-x--x   254  root     wheel     79872 29 oct 19:28 ..
> drwx---r-x   16   u42451   clients   1024  29 oct 18:34 http
>
> $ mkdir test
> $ ls -ld test
> drwxr-xr-x  2 u42451  clients  512 29 oct 19:39 test
>
> it means that dirs are always made with primary usergroup.
>
> FreeBSD:
> Everithing the same but,
> $ mkdir test
> $ ls -ld test
> drwxr-xr-x  2 u42451  www  512 29 oct 19:39 test
> it means the group is alway inherited from parent dir.
>
> Can I make this as in linux?
> Thanks.
>
> --
> BRGDS. Alesha Vlasov.
>
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I'd never noticed this before; does BSD *always* inherit its group
permission from the parent directory? It looks like that.

I'd imagine there's a way to change this somewhere, but it would involve a
kernel patch or something. Inheritance of permissions are pretty low level.

James