Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Reading the RedHat and Debian doc referred to, "User Private Groups" seems > to be another name for setting the umask and the setgid bit in a directory > intended for shared work. Did I miss something or is that all it is?
This is the key to Richards problem - Richard I hope you understand what a default UMASK means? The mask can be set via umask command and also look into the meaning of chmod Ss bits. Perhaps it will be useful. regards