Group Definitions
Submitted by Des on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 09:41
To add a group edit the /etc/group file
vi /etc/group
add
mygroup::223:des,jow,fred
mkdir /home/mygroup
chgrp mygroup /home/mygroup
ls -ld /home/mygroup
Give the group write permission
chmod g+w /home/mygroup
Turn on set group id on mygroup so all files created in it have group id permissions
chmod g+s /home/mygroupman chmod
ls -ld /home/mygroup
umask 2 (change umask to 2 to enable write for group automatically)