2010/7/11 camelia <camelia.bo...@weizmann.ac.il>
> We have a server runing RHEL 4.
>
> We created for an already existing file system acl looking like this:
>
>
>
> # file: ngs
>
> # owner: bsgilgi
>
> # group: bioserv
>
> user::rwx
>
> group::rwx
>
> group:bioserv:rwx
>
> mask::rwx
>
> other::r-x
>
> default:user::rwx
>
> default:group::rwx
>
> default:group:bioserv:rwx
>
> default:mask::rwx
>
> default:other::r-x
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> We want to know why the permissions for group bioserv are not inherited on
> subdirectories ( only on the new created directories under group bioserv)
> and why users from bioserv group cannot r/w files in other users
> directories?
>
>
There's no inheritence of permissions in *nix.
There is however a way to inherit the group of the parent directory on new
files, by setting the directory with the suid bit (chmod +s).
If this was not done prior to creating the files, and now needs to be done,
you can simply run:
chgrp -R bioserv <root-dir-name>
chmod -R g+rw <root-dir-name>
find <root-dir-name> -type d -exec chmod g+x '{}' \;
... and I think everything would be OK...
HTH,
-- Shimi
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