Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:4796 comp.unix.wizards:5746 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!dsacg1!dsacg3!ntm1569 From: ntm1569@dsacg3.UUCP (Jeff Roth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Setting up groups Message-ID: <491@dsacg3.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 87 22:04:42 GMT References: <4718@well.UUCP> <299@dlag1.UUCP> Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus Lines: 14 Summary: group of directory determines group of file In article <299@dlag1.UUCP>, fm06222@dlag1.UUCP (Bill Wallace) writes re: group field in passwd entry: > This doesn't actually assign the user to a group. It is used when > the user creates a file. The group associated with that file will be the > one in the /etc/passwd entry.... Under BSD (at least) the file gets the group id of the _directory_ in which it is created. -- Jeff Roth {uunet!gould,cbosgd!osu-cis}!dsacg1!jroth Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center | 614-238-9421 DSAC-TMP, P.O. Box 1605, Columbus, OH 43216 | Autovon 850- All views expressed are mine, not necessarily anyone else's