group privileges

[himacs]

Hi Admins,
How we can check group privileges?
Can we set any privileges to group while creating?

Awaiting ur replies..

Regards,
himacs

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

id username < lists the groups >

umask sets permissions, primary group determines the group when a user creates a file.

You can overwrite this with directory defaults.

ll -d direcotry_name

SEP

[himacs]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for ur reply.

Actually i wanted know about group.
By default what privileges any group having?
If we adding a user to any group,the user inheriting group privileges?
How to check group's present privileges

Regards
himacs

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you want to be able to create files in a directory and have those files inherit the directory's group, set the 'setgid' bit on the directory. THus:

# mkdir /tmp/mydir
# chgrp users /tmp/mydir
# chmod 2777 /tmp/mydir
# touch /tmp/mydir/myfile
# ls -l /tmp/mydir/myfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Apr 8 10:21 /tmp/mydir/myfile

...thus the file was created with the group ownership of its parent directory.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ganesan R · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>>By default what privileges any group having?<<

normal groups will not have any privilages for it's own.

>>If we adding a user to any group,the user inheriting group privileges?<<

Yes. For examble if this group is having write access to one particular directory, it will be inherited to the users belongs to this group.

>>How to check group's present privileges<<
#cat /etc/group