Re: file permissions

Michiel Boland wrote:
> On BSD, group ownership of a file is inherited from the parent directory.
> So if you have a directory that is owned by 'wheel', any file you create
> in there will have owner 'wheel' too, regardless of any groups the creator
> is in.

on BSD? on any unix, IF the SGID bit is set for the directory.

# mkdir test
# chown :users test
# touch test/foo
# ls -l test/foo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar 29 17:24 test/foo
# chmod g+s test
# ls -ld test
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     users        1024 Mar 29 17:24 test
# touch test/foo2
# ls -l test/foo2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     users           0 Mar 29 17:24 test/foo2
# uname -s -r
Linux 2.4.19-pre4

> [...]
> 
> Cheers
> Michiel

Thorben