D. Alvarado wrote:
> Let's say I am user 'dave' belonging to groups 'dave' and 'server'.
> When I am in a certain directory, say /home/dave, I would like any
> 'mkdir dirname' command to result in 'dirname' being owned by 'dave'
> and belonging to group 'server'. But right now, the command
>
> mkdir dirname
>
> results in dirname being owned by user 'dave' and group 'dave'. What
> should I do so that creating directories results in those directories
> being owned by 'dave' but belonging to group 'server'?

This is BSD semantics. Set the sguid bit on the directory (owned by
group "server") if you want BSD semantics.

Peter

D. Alvarado wrote:

> Hi,
> Let's say I am user 'dave' belonging to groups 'dave' and 'server'.
> When I am in a certain directory, say /home/dave, I would like any
> 'mkdir dirname' command to result in 'dirname' being owned by 'dave'
> and belonging to group 'server'. But right now, the command
>
> mkdir dirname
>
> results in dirname being owned by user 'dave' and group 'dave'. What
> should I do so that creating directories results in those directories
> being owned by 'dave' but belonging to group 'server'?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

chown -R dave:server mydir
man chown

On 04/07/04 10:35, D. Alvarado wrote:
> Hi,
> Let's say I am user 'dave' belonging to groups 'dave' and 'server'.
> When I am in a certain directory, say /home/dave, I would like any
> 'mkdir dirname' command to result in 'dirname' being owned by 'dave'
> and belonging to group 'server'. But right now, the command
>
> mkdir dirname
>
> results in dirname being owned by user 'dave' and group 'dave'. What
> should I do so that creating directories results in those directories
> being owned by 'dave' but belonging to group 'server'?
>
> Thanks, - Dave
Set username 'dave' to be in the primary group 'server', ie in
/etc/passwd set 'dave' to the the group number that correcponds to
'server' in /etc/groups.

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:35:28 -0700, D. Alvarado wrote:

> Hi,
> Let's say I am user 'dave' belonging to groups 'dave' and 'server'.
> When I am in a certain directory, say /home/dave, I would like any
> 'mkdir dirname' command to result in 'dirname' being owned by 'dave' and
> belonging to group 'server'. But right now, the command
>
> mkdir dirname
>
> results in dirname being owned by user 'dave' and group 'dave'. What
> should I do so that creating directories results in those directories
> being owned by 'dave' but belonging to group 'server'?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

chmod g+s

will preserve the group ownership for all files and dirs created in that
directory.

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