[TriLUG] Re: fedora core 3 permishions

[James Brigman]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 11:51 -0500, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> You can of course use the suggestion by James to set the sticky bit on 
> the directory, so that all files will have their group set to the group 
> of the parent directory, but then you'll need to do that for all 
> subsequently created directories as well - not a solution I would 
> personally recommend.

However, subsequently created directories are also owned by the sticky
bit. Remember, when you touch it, it's STICKY....

[pompom at homestarrunner.com test]# mkdir blibityblao

[pompom at homestarrunner.com test]# ls -al
total 28
drwxrwsr-x   3 root apache 4096 Mar 25 12:01 .
drwxr-x---  37 root root   4096 Mar 25 12:01 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root apache    0 Mar 25 11:27 blahblah
drwxr-sr-x   2 root apache 4096 Mar 25 12:01 blibityblao

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Police!

JKB