making a group or user own a directory's contents

brazilian_joe · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 99

I would like to have all files copied to a directory to ignore the group (and maybe user) in its source location and acquire the group (and/or user) of the directory where it is being copied to. Is it possible? Yes, I can just chgrp, I want automation, I want it to happen unnattended.

ectospasm · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject:

Only way I know of doing that is if I'm copying some file into my home directory, which changes the user to my username and group to my primary group. This is probably not what you want. Best thing to do is write a script to do it, and use chgrp and cp in the script. I'm not much for writing scripts, so I direct you to your shell's manual.
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meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:15 pm Post subject:

Isn't this where the sticky bit on a directory comes in useful? I had a play with chmod +t but I couldn't seem to figure out how it works.

devon · l33t Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 943

Check out https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83824

meowsqueak · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:19 am Post subject:

Apologies - not the sticky bit but the 'set group ID on execution bit' - seems it's commonly confused.