Topic: Ubuntu: Keep one owner/group in a directory tree

[Mike]

Do any of you know of a good way to always have one owner/group for a directory tree regardless of the creator?  Also have it so that g+w is default in that tree?

The scenario is that the tree is used for the website so I want all the files owned by www-data.  All users will be part of the www-data group.

I really don't want to create a every-minute cron to run chown and chmod

[Steve]

I'm shooting in the dark sorta because im not exactly sure what you mean, but i believe you can do it this way. Open a term and run gksudo nautilus. Navigate to the folder in question, and go into the properties.

[hans]

That sounds like a great question to ask on

serverfault.com

see my other thread for the beta password.