[Babase] permissions on papio
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Tue Mar 28 14:59:49 EST 2006
On 03/28/2006 01:31:29 PM, Leah Gerber wrote:
> Hello Karl,
>
> When we transfer copies of Babase to papio should we be changing the
> permissions? As it is now I can't transfer a new version of the
> babase changes document that Catherine placed on papio earlier
> today. I would like to overwrite the copy she placed on Papio. I get
> an error message saying "permission denied". What permission is
> required for us to be able to overwrite files? Do we need group RWX
> permission?
You need group rwx permission on the directory containing the files.
Otherwise you can't delete the old and add the new files to the
directory. In general, the directory should also be set-gid
(shows as s or S). Setgid ensures that newly created files have
the same group as their parent directory.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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