Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:30:02 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner Message-ID: <20080710033002.GB8384@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <200807092026.42703.af300wsm@gmail.com> References: <200807092026.42703.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've not had to set this up and so far my efforts have proven less than
> successful. I'm working on a web project with my father and one other
> developer. I need to have it so that our user id's, when creating files in
> the directory we share the source code in, create the files with the group
> id common to the three of us. How do I do this?
[...]
New files are created with GID set to that of the directory in which they're
contained. In your case, is that directory owned by user and group 'andy'?
If so:
% chown -R :www /path/to/shared/directory
... and every file created therein will have the default GID.
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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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