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Re: your mail
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
>
> Absolutely FALSE. RTFM Stevens who is, indubitably, God, Messiah and the
> Holy Virgin rolled into one.
see? I just heard of him here for the first time.
> SGID on a direcroty means that files created in the directory are
> automagicly chgrp'ed to the group of the directory.
even if the user creating the file is not a member of the group...?
and is it inherited to the directories below, or should they all be marked
sguid as well?
> When used on a DIRECTORY, the sticky bit allows (in an otherwise writable
> directory) deletion (and moving) of files in the said directory ONLY to
> the files' owner, the directory's owner and root.
.... which is why it is used on directories such as /tmp and
/var/spool/mail
> This information, by the way, is directly from Stevens:
>
> Advance Programming in the Unix Environment,
> W. Richard Stevens
> Eigth Printing
> (c) 1992 Addison-Wesley.
> ISBN 0-201-56317-7
and since that isn't a very common household book nor a freely distributed
online text, but it IS a much appreciated work of a genious, there is
ample reason to quote it here.
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