maown - file system monitor for shared group directories

Xyne · 2012-05-14 03:34:17

I needed a way to manage ownership and permissions of files in a shared directory. ACLs and "chmod g+s" alone were not enough so I wrote maown.

Maown is a file system monitor written in C. It uses inotify to recursively watch a directory tree for file creation and attribute modification. It automatically chowns files to user:group and adjusts group permissions to match user permissions.

The package includes a daemon with a simple configuration file. Each line in the configuration file specifies a user, a group and a list of directories to monitor:

<user> <group> <directory> [<directory>...]

Last edited by Xyne (2012-05-21 02:35:24)

Xyne · 2012-05-21 02:37:05

Bump: I have improved the code, changed the name and added a daemon.

Xyne · 2012-09-17 05:18:42

Maown has been replaced with Autochown.

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#1 2012-05-14 03:34:17

maown - file system monitor for shared group directories

#2 2012-05-21 02:37:05

Re: maown - file system monitor for shared group directories

#3 2012-09-17 05:18:42

Re: maown - file system monitor for shared group directories

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