On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:31:15AM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote on Wed, 04 May 2011 14:12:32 -0700: > > > Make the writable directories SGID and any files and subdirectories created > > there will inherit the group ownership: > > AFAIK, this works on Unix, but not on Linux. On Linux you have to use ACLs, as It works on Linux. $ id -a uid=500(sweh) gid=500(sweh) groups=0(root),500(sweh),501(vboxusers) $ ls -ld . drwxr-sr-x 2 sweh bin 4096 May 4 18:33 ./ $ ls -l hmmm /bin/ls: hmmm: No such file or directory $ touch hmmm $ ls -ld hmmm -rw-r--r-- 1 sweh bin 0 May 4 18:33 hmmm So the file I just created is in group bin even though I am not in that group. -- rgds Stephen