[web-team] SVLUG web directions file permissions problem

[Marc MERLIN]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:09:18PM -0800, Ian Kluft wrote:
> SVLUG Web Team -
> 
> I was going to make some clarifications to the Cisco Bldg 9 directions.
> But the file permissions have been changed...
>    drwxr-sr-x    3 star     webslave     4096 Nov 20 11:51 .
>    drwxrwsr-x   33 webslave webslave     4096 Jan 27 21:42 ..
>    drwxr-sr-x    2 star     webslave     4096 Nov 20 11:51 RCS
>    -r--r--r--    1 star     webslave    34328 Nov 20 11:51 cisco-9.shtml
> 
> So I can't.  Please update the permissions to allow group webslave to have
> write permissions (including in the RCS directory.)  Or clarify whether
> I should still maintain this file.
> 
> Hint: when working with a group, use the setgid bit on directories so that
> subdirectories will be created with permissions inherited from the parent
> directory.  My guess is this was not intentional.  (I know Heather - she

This should have been the case.
I don't know why, how and when they were changed, but I just restored them

Marc
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