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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 98 11:04 +0100
From: Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Group ownership
To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a shell script to automate some procedures. I want this
> shell to be executable by root only. 
> 
> One of the things it needs to do is create some directories. But I don't
> want these directories to be owned by root/wheel. While I can do chown
> whatever I want, I don't know how to change the fact that it's owned by
> group wheel. 
> 
> Any suggestions?

chown user.group file
chgrp group file


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