Linux group question

[kevin kempter]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Please don't hijack existing threads to talk about unrelated topics.
> This question should be a new thread.
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:14 -0600, kevin kempter wrote:
>> Hi List;
>>
>> I have 2 users which both have need to access various database  
>> related
>> files.I've created a new group called 'dba'. Most of the time I want
>> the users to create files with their default user:group perms,  
>> however
>> when I'm working on these sql / db files I want the files to be
>> created with the default user as the owner but dba as the group.
>
> The standard way of doing this is for the DB software to run setgid as
> the dba group. Since you don't say what the DB software is, it's  
> hard to
> say if that's appropriate in your case.
>
> poc
>

Thanks for the info.

FYI - I did not hijack a thread - I started this thread.