setting a group for new files in a directory

eantoranz · 01-18-2005, 07:23 AM

How can I set the default group for new files in a directory?

I want the cvs repository's files created by developers to be set to the developers group so that other users can edit them.

makuyl · 01-18-2005, 11:54 AM

Have a look in "man mount" for setgid and grpid. I use grpid in fstab for a partition where I want users to be group of new files.

EDIT: re read your post and you don't mention a partition so: you can set the group of a directory to say devel , and do chmod g+s dirname
After that new files in that dir should have devel as group.

eantoranz · 01-18-2005, 01:44 PM

That's what I just read. Thank you for your interest. :-)