Spake Stephen Ames on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 06:43PM -0400:
> Does anybody know how to get this done in scp? I have a web server where
> different users copy files with scp from their MS XP machines to the web
> server. The server assigns the files -rw-r--r-- permissions and makes the
> user the owner as well as the group. (make sense?) So when another user
> comes along, they can't manipulate the files and I have to chmod and chgroup
> it to fix the ownership and the permissions. This only lasts so long until
> more changes are made. Ideally I would like to set permissions on the
> directory and have any files copied into it assume the permissions of the
> directory instead of retaining the permissions of the user.
>
> I hope I explained that well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
Looks like you want the group sticky bit.
chmod g+s $dir will make all files created in $dir
will belong to the same group as $dir.
What does scp have to do with samba in this case? I'm a little
confused as to weather you're using scp or samba... or both...
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