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An introduction to groups
Authored by: dsquared on Dec 27, '03 05:31:42PM

I just got a new 20" iMac ( 10.3.1 ) and was hoping to synchronize the file systems between it and my G4 desktop running 10.2.8. I copied my wife's directory to the new computer using tar and was a bit disconcerted t find that the new computer had her group the same as her user id. The old computer had her group as "staff". I tried in vain to re-set her group to staff via netinfo manager. I changed her user group to "staff" -- no luck. I changed the "staff" group to include her -- no luck. Finally I discovered that for whatever reason, the files inside your user directory ( and apparently other directories as well ) inherit the group of the folder they are in. I changed all of the folders/files via "chown" to "staff" and voila, new files have the group "staff". Now I should be able to keep the two file systems in sync and either of us will be able to use either computer.



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