Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: file permissions in archive

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:33:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:34:00AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 04:41:25PM +0200, Enno Cramer wrote:
> > > > I will, once I find enough free time, take a look into the sftp
> > > > transport and try to add some stat/chmod hack to have every newly
> > > > created file/directory in the archive "inherit" its permission. That
> > > > would allow to control access using unix groups with category, branch
> > > > or even version granularity.
> > > 
> > > As promised, here is my hack to allow multi-user archives with sftp write 
> > > access. This patch changes the group id and permission for every newly 
> > > created file or directory to the parent directory's gid/permission.
> > 
> > Isn't that supposed to happen automaticaly when there is a suid/sgid bit
> > set on the directory?
> 
> for groups yes, permissions no.
> 
> for permissions you would need a default ACL.

Well, the suid/sgid is inherited by directories as well, but the write
permission is not :-(.

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