Re: [webmin-l] File; Folder Ownership

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:15 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 20:04 -0400, Vern wrote:
> > > You can't have two owners.  
> > 
> > I thought not.
> > 
> > > You can, however, create a group containing 
> > > those two users (it can be a secondary group, and probably should be, 
> > > since many systems have a specific primary group for normal users, or 
> > > they auto-generate a primary group named after the user), and then set 
> > > the group ownership to that group.  Just make sure group can read/write 
> > > your file, and all will be well.  
> > 
> > Well I created a super user at it where called Vernon and made it's secondary group as 
> > root. But still cannot write to the folder unless the folder has Vernon set as user. 
> > So how do I make it so that a group has write access?
> ----
> chmod g+r /path/to/file/or/folder
> 
> chmod g+s /path/to/file/or/folder # sticky bit so that any new files
>                                   # or folders that get created inside
>                                   # that folder retain the same group
----
brain fart

chmod g+w /path/to/file/or/folder # to set group write access

Craig


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