Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:15:17 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File creation using non-member group! Message-ID: <20000425221517.E13245@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250942330.64330-100000@ren.sasknow.com>; from ryan@sasknow.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:58:09AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250942330.64330-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:58:09AM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > > Hmm... > > Just noticed that on one of my accounts the real gid of the user is not > being used in file creation The gid of the user has nothing to do with the gid of a newly created file. The gid of the file is the same as that of the directory it is in. > (non-setgid/sticky directory, of course!) Of course, since setgid is meaningless on a directory. That is how it always works. [snip] > This behaviour persists at least as far back as 3.4-STABLE, through to > yesterday's 4.0-STABLE. Yep. That is correct BSD-style behavior. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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