Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:45:17 EST From: "Neil Oosten" <neiloosten@hotmail.com> To: gjb@comkey.com.au Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing groups Message-ID: <19990327194523.55131.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Just an update: Dan and Greg and some others all had it right. I must have been reading a Sys V page or something. I checked it out and the set up as it is works just fine. I must have been confused. Thanks to those of you who pointed me in the right direction. -- Neil >> Here's my situation: I want have a user who is a member of three >> groups--say they are radio, tv, and newspaper. When the user logs in the >> group is set to radio, but then he has to go edit something for radio. >> How do I change the user's group from newspaper to radio. > >The concept of a user's default belongs more to SysV than BSD. > >Under BSD, the group of a newly-created file is determined by >the group of the directory it is created in. To change the >group of newly created files in a directory, use chgrp on the >directory; to change the group of files already created in a >directory, use chgrp on the files (or chgrp -R on the directory >if all the descendants of that directory are intended to be >affected by the command). > >-- >Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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