[plug] Groups and files

[John Summerfield]

> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Damion Hill wrote:
> 
> > Evening All,
> > I'm wondering if there is a way to force files within a given directory 
> > structure to have a specific user.group combination?
> 
> There used to be a way to set a bit on a directory, and all files created
> in it would inherit the group from the directory. I think this is a
> BSD-ism. Is there any way to do this in Linux? I'd search, but have no
> idea what its called.

I thought this too. Not knowing which bit, I tried this:
[summer at possum summer]$ dir -dl test
drwsrwxrwt   2 summer   mail         1024 Dec 17 07:13 test
[summer at possum summer]$ cd test
[summer at possum test]$ >test3
[summer at possum test]$ dir -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r--   1 summer   summer          0 Dec 17 07:14 test3
[summer at possum test]$ dir -la
total 10
drwsrwxrwt   2 summer   mail         1024 Dec 17 07:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 123 summer   summer       9216 Dec 17 07:13 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 summer   summer          0 Dec 17 07:14 test3
[summer at possum test]$ dir -lan
total 10
drwsrwxrwt   2 500      12           1024 Dec 17 07:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 123 500      500          9216 Dec 17 07:13 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 500      500             0 Dec 17 07:14 test3
[summer at possum test]$

As you can see, it did not work. I rather thought that, if anything would 
work, turning on all bits would.

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