A problem with TeamSite 6.7.1 on Solaris or Linux servers are when creating a new workarea, group permissions fail to propagate down; meaning permissions don;t filter down.

Any additional folders or files created or imported with the “File Import” menu action will take on the logged-on user’’s primary group; not the workarea group.

Solution:

To overcome this potential problem, configure the workarea permissions such that the group you specified is automatically propagated down to newly created folders and files; therfore inheriting the workarea group permissions only. This approach works applies to both ordinary Unix groups and TeamSite groups.

After creating a new workarea, enable the “set-group-ID” permission on the workarea by running the following command on cmd (execute the command as the user root);

“chmod g+s”

e.g.

chmod g+s /default/main/branch1/WORKAREA/test_workarea

Once the command execute, you can verify the command has been successfully executed by running the command;

“ls -ld”

e.g.

ls -ld /default/main/branch1/WORKAREA/test_workarea

You should find a “s” in the group permissions, such as:  drwxrwsr-x

Tags: Yusuf Ali

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