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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:30:02 -0400
From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group
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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.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>