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S Mar 30, 2017 at 3:05 history suggested htoip CC BY-SA 3.0
Use descriptive title, improve English, remove linux tag
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Feb 16, 2017 at 10:36 comment added ConfusedClown By this, will not the user 'prateekkaien' gain access of rwx as of the group ? The superuser is the administrator. It can create and modify files but the user can only view/read it. I didnt get what it says above
Feb 16, 2017 at 10:27 comment added dirkt As a further example, you normally just make groups according to the necessary roles, and then assign users to it. For example, my /usr/local as a setgid of staff, and I'm member of staff, so I can work with files below /usr/local any way I want. If some other user who is also a member of staff does the same, I don't care, because as a member of the same group, I can modify his files etc.
Feb 16, 2017 at 10:21 comment added Murphy You could swap user and group to achieve this: Create a group prateekkaien (or use an existing one), use setgid as described by @dirkt, set the permissions accordingly and leave the user untouched.
Feb 16, 2017 at 10:19 history edited ConfusedClown CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 16, 2017 at 10:17 comment added ConfusedClown I want the user to be able to read/view the file. When a file is being created it is being user-owned by 'superadmin' with permission rwx Basically all I want is, the files to inherit the same user and groups and same permissions and ownerships as of the parent directory
Feb 16, 2017 at 10:08 comment added dirkt You can force the group ownership with the setgid bit on directories, but it works only for the group, not for the user. So the question becomes: why do you want to change user ownership, too, and what do you hope to achieve by that?
Feb 16, 2017 at 10:01 history asked ConfusedClown CC BY-SA 3.0