Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 08:24:03 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: aunty@comcen.com.au, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: individual groups? Message-ID: <199912240824.IAA01397@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:45:55 PST." <199912231545.HAA63912@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> That said, the group mention in the passwd file is used to establish the
> default group ownership of files that are created. (This is overridden
> if the setgid bit is set in the containing directory at the time of file
> creation, and it is overridden in such a case to be the group that owns
> the directory in question.)
This is sysv behaviour. BSD always behaves as if the gid bit is set.
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