Ownership and permissions

[Guest_imported]

Hello all,

I have a directory which has the ownership admin::comp and has the permissions rwxrwx---. I want to use this directory so that anyone in the comp group can copy files into it. However, I want the file been copied to have the same ownership and permissions as the directory - so the file will be owened by admin instead of the user who copied the file. Is there a way to do this and if so how do i do it?

Thanks for your help

 

[trunix]

If a user creates a file, it will always have the ownership of that user. You have the following options :-

Get the users to 'su admin' before the file is created.
or
Get the users to 'chown' the file after it is created.
or
Run a 'root' cron job every few minutes to 'chown' all the files in the directory.

 

[MikeLacey]

Create a setuid program that does only the job you want it to do -- copies these particular files to a prticular directory -- and have the program owned by admin. Allow users to call this program. Mike
________________________________________________________________

"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[KevinMcKloud]

im not sure, but.. "owned by admin" seems like a
possible Scurity hole if you're not careful in
what programs will be changed to be 'admin' owned.

just a comment >=]

Kevin

 

[aixmurderer]

Your users could try "sudo" if you have that installed and configured. IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
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