Primary group and parent dir

[James]

On 10/31/07, James <oscartheduck at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
>




Okay, more research is leading me to believe it's actually a file system
issue. The BSD file system works one way, other file systems work
differently.

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive291-2006-3-1429958.html

Try creating a partition with ext3 on it and creating a few folders in
there. You could even format a USB drive or something.