Re: [Exim] directory permissions

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:26:59AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> This does seem to depend on the OS and file system. On Solaris, for
> example, it depends on the setgid bit on the directory. If that is set,
> the file copies the group of the directory (and subdirectories also get
> the setgid bit set). If setgid is not set, the file is created with the
> current group.
>
> I have just done an experiment on FreeBSD. The behaviour seems to be
> always to copy the directory group, independent of the setgid bit.
>
> This area seems sufficiently hairy that I have a gut feeling that Exim
> should not be trying to mess around in here.

Fair enough. Maybe it could at least be mentioned in the create_directory
documentation that the group owner is highly dependent on the system.

Andy