Subject: Re: file ownership
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 19:17:28 AKDT
Jim, this is exactly what is happening. Very annoying.
Jon
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 19:00, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Yeah, but what is going to happen to the file ownership when a user
> opens the file, edits it, and then re-saves it? Who owns it then? How
> does one keep it editable by the group?
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 08:29, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> >
> > Jon,
> >
> > I am assuming samba.... If you have a file that needs to be shared you need to
> > put all of the users in one unix group and then tell samba to force a group on
> > the dir with this samba syntax:
> >
> > create mask = 0660
> > directory mask = 0770
> > force group = unixGroup
> >
> > That will force every file to be group writable with the right group set.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > schu
> >
> >
> > Jon Reynolds wrote:
> >
> > > I have a certain file that needs to be shared with about 15 users. It is an
> > > excel sheet that needs to be updated by everyone in the group. I have set
> > > the file on the server and given it the a user and group and shared it with
> > > the users. But whenever anyone edits the sheet and saves the changes it
> > > reverts to that user as the owner and this locks the rest of the group out.
> > > How do I make this shared excel sheet not change ownership?
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
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