[ale] Writing to NFS

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:55, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:11 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:40, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > > Why would the group suid bit be on?
> > >
> > > I would expect:
> > >
> > > drwxr-xr-x
> > >
> > > but not with suid bits set on a mount point.  Is there some special
> > > group that needs suid access?
> > > Dow
> >
> > Doesn't that ensure that child files and directories inherit those
> > permissions, as opposed to actually giving suid access?
>
> I believe it means that any files will be owned by that group, instead of
> whatever the primary group of any writer might be.
>

Right.