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Re: chmod bits



On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> 
> > Look in almost _ANY_ book on system administration or system programming.
> 
> no, he is right, it IS a problem. I have looked it up many times and
> nobody on Unix Unleashed, Linux Networking, Unix admins for dummies and
> all the rest, REALLY explains the sticky bit, or what a sgid bit on a
> directory does... all from asking Army unix gurus (I didn't know you
> University smarties at the time!)

>From chmod(2) (*not* chmod(1))manual page:
 On
 some file systems, only the super-user can set the  sticky
 bit,  which may have a special meaning (i.e., for directo
 ries, a file can only be  deleted  by  the  owner  or  the
 super-user).

Not a very good explanation, but still something...

Vad.

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