Yea, the setuid/setgid bits are probably one of the more confusing aspects of a UNIX filesystem permissions. Basically you need to make the directory setgid, and set the group of the directory to whatever you want the files in it to be created as. # cd /tmp # mkdir test # chgrp audio test # chmod g+ws test joeuser$ touch /tmp/test/testfile joeuser$ ll /tmp/test/testfile total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 cfandre audio 0 Feb 7 04:57 testfile Hmmm, maybe this would be a good topic at the next "newbie" meeting. ;-) On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Tim Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Here's a very common sysadmin task that I want to make sure I do exactly > right. My wife is home fulltime for the time being taking care of our > new baby. While she's home she's got to use "my" computer. That makes > her a Linux and KDE user by default. :-) I've got StarOffice all set up > and she's having no trouble. > > I want to create a shared folder for "household" documents. Things that > should be commonly owned by both of us. I've created a 'family' group > and added the right user to the group, but I'm not sure how to set up > the permission on the shared directory so that any files added will > automatically have group ownership set to 'family'. <confession > type="bold">I never really have understood all the stuff about sticky > bits very well.</confession> > > I figure that I'll just leave the new family folder in my account and > symlink to it from her /home. > > Any suggestions or hints? > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020207/c3bb4825/attachment.pgp