Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 08:51:22 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Malcolm G Boff <Malcolm_Boff@compuserve.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Behaviour of 'su' Message-ID: <199712211651.IAA22741@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Dec 1997 10:26:45 EST." <199712211027_MC2-2CB5-7C4A@compuserve.com>
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>As I normally work on an AIX system I was somewhat surprised when testing
>on FreeBSD on my PC (version 2.2.2) the behaviour of 'su' and would like
>some feedback.
>
>There is a user 'abc' (uid 1000) with a group of 20 (gid). As root I 'su'
>to
>the user ('su - abc') and then 'touch /tmp/test' and ls -al shows the file
>permissions to be 'rw-r--r-- abc wheel' whereas I would have expected
>'rw-r--r-- abc staff'. Is this correct and if so why ?
>
>Please respond to my email address as I am not in the forum.
It is correct. In BSD, the gid of the file is inherited from the directory
that the file is created in.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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