Questions tagged [setgid]

I've set the setgid-bit on folders within my samba-share. It works like a charm for windows and linux clients. Accessing such a folder with a mac-client the setgid is ignored and the group permission of the newly created files/directories is set to…

On Linux systems, /etc/passwd file contains an UID and a GID per user. GID represents the ID of the primary group of the user. But we can also set additional groups to a user with /etc/group file. Is there a difference between primary and additional…

I'm struggling with ACLs on Linux. In my setup, I need to inherit both setgid bit and my ACLs when creating new directories. The ACLs are inherited as expected. The new directory has got all ACLs the parent directory has. Unfortunately, the setgid…