[Info-vax] Setting Default Owner of a File

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sun May 1 00:34:08 EDT 2011


On 2011-04-30 16:15, jbriggs444 wrote:
> On Apr 30, 5:24 pm, gartm... at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph
> Gartmann) wrote:
>> In article<iphfmb$l4... at dont-email.me>, Chris Scheers<ch... at applied-synergy.com>  writes:
>>> It's been a while since I set up something like this, but if I remember
>>> correctly, what I did was to make the directory owned by the GROUP, not
>>> a user.
>>
>>> Then, set the protection on the directory so that it can be written by
>>> members of the group.
>>
>>> That way, no privileges are needed.
>>
>>> [GROUP,*] is a valid user specification for most (all?) places that use
>>> a user ID.
>>
>>> This was back in the VMS 5.x days, so it is possible that the details of
>>> security inheritance have changed enough that this no longer works.
>>
>> Even if it does work, it won't solve the quota problem.
>
> Why would it not solve the quota problem?  If [group,*] is still
> a valid owner for file and if group members still have ownership
> rights to it then disk quota would work just fine.

If the wish was that USERA should be charged for the quota, then how 
would this solve it?

	Johnny

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