Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:38:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: cs <cs-fbsd@ctzen.com> Subject: Re: Is this possible ? inherit group permissions Message-ID: <20050523093759.M47072@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <44wtpq13lu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <42900CC6.4090701@ctzen.com> <44wtpq13lu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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I'll have to remember that one. So if /home is a filesystem unto itself, if you set the suid bit on /home, all further creation beneath it will inherit the permissions you set above? On Mon, 23 May 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > cs <cs-fbsd@ctzen.com> writes: > >> For a directory, e.g. foo/, if I chmod 775 foo/, is it possible for >> newly created files and directories under foo/ to automagically >> inherit the group permissions of foo ? >> >> e.g. >> touch foo/test would be rw-rw-r-- >> mkdir foo/sub would be rwxrwxr-x >> >> I am looking for a non umask solution. >> >> I seem to remember in debian, I was able to make the group permissions >> of the parent directory special for this magic to occur. >> >> I wonder if there is something similar in FBSD. > > If you set the suid bit, both owner *and* group will be set. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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