Directory ownerships

[Assar Westerlund]

Magnus Lindström <lindstrm at s3.kth.se> writes:
> The gid of a newly created file or directory seems to always be
> root, not my default group nor the gid of the parent directory. Is
> this the correct behaviour?

No, and this is very strange.  Whenever I try it on Linux 2.2.x
kernels, I always get newly created files and directories with gid my
current gid.

Can you show us the output of `id' to make sure you're in some strange
point in uid/gid-space?

/assar