On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > Is there a way to specify that all files created in a certain directory > should belong to a certain group and be writable by that group? You could: - turn on the setgid bit for that directory (chmod g+s mydir) - play around with umask (I think a value of 022 is right) 'info chmod' and 'info setgid' for details. Maybe google for "chmod setgid directory linux". -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list