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From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Interesting problem: chowning files sent via FTP
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As I remember (and I just checked this on a 2.2.8 system and it appears
to be correct), the default group owner of a file is the group owner of the
directory containing the file.

I've seen other systems which set the setgid bit on the dir to get this
behavior.

Kenneth


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