This summary is WAY overdue with my original question being asked in May. Original question: I have a SparcStation 20 set up for students to use for a course. Directories are set to have the GID bit on to force file creation inside of the directories to have the same group as the directory. As such: drwxr-s--- someuser webgroup someuserdir This enables the webserver and instructors to see the directory but students can't see each other's directories. Problem: FTP clients (Unix or PC) don't seem to be able to preserve the setGID bit upon upload of a folder or creation of a directory. The box is running Solaris's built-in FTP server. SOLUTION: The problem turned out to be that Sun's FTP server was not robust enough to preserve the setGID bit convention. I installed proftp (www.proftpd.net) and the problem was solved. Thanks to all who provided suggestions. ********************************************************************************** Lisa Weihl, System Administrator E-mail: lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu Department of Computer Science Office: Hayes 225 Bowling Green State University Phone: (419) 372-0116 Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0214 Fax: (419) 372-8061 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Oct 31 14:54:54 2001
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