Group Folder

I found this description on Ubuntu forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=576907

Re: Inheriting permissions

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If you are sharing files with few people. You should create a group for that folder. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/ Let's say the folder contains open office docs. Create a group called, /data1/washuDataReformatted and put all the users who need to write to that group. The users might be Jane, Bob, and John. Set folder to 770 on /data1 folder.

groupadd analysts

useradd -g analysts bhoom

If you already have stuff in that folder,

chmod -R 770 /data1


-R is recursive

After that set your setgid by typing

chmod g+s /data1

It will inherited the group permission now on.

Hope it works?!