[TriLUG] Another silly question

[Tanner Lovelace]

Joshua Gitlin wrote:
> Hello everyone...
> 
> Sorry for asking another "newbie" question... I used to know how to do 
> this but now I've forgotten. I have a directory in which I want to 
> "force" all new files to have a certain uid and gid. (or gid, at least), 
> even if the creating user's default group isn't the gid I want. (For 
> example, the group is "mygroup" but the user's default group is 
> "users"... I want the files that the user creates to have a group of 
> "mygroup" instead of "users".) How would I accomplish that?

Change the directory to be setuid or setgid based on whether you want
the user or group to do that.

Cheers,
Tanner

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