[olug] Foxtrot does *nix

[Jonathan Warren]

4 = SUID, 2 = SGID, and 1 = directory sticky bit
if 4 is set than if the executable is run it is run as the owner of the executable.  if the 2 is set it runs with the group of the executable and if the file is a directory and 1 is set only the owner of the directory or the owner of a file in the directory may remove that file.

to set sticky bits put them on the front of your chmod.
chmod 4700 *


On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:46:16PM -0600, Chris Garrity wrote:
> To "chmod 700 *", "chmod go-rwx *", or "chmod u+rwx *" --- that's the 
> real question. I'd guess the first would be the least ambiguous, being 
> that its starting start (the permissions mode on affected files) is 
> irrevelant; unlike the last two, where the resultant final state *is* 
> dependent upon the starting state (the permissions mode) or the affected 
> files.
> 
> Now could some please explain to me the practical value of "sticky 
> bits?" Ain't there something in their group memembership that they're 
> all sticky about?
> 
> Timothy G. O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >yes it may be - and you need this link to see the correct comic strip Jeff is pointing out (it is the strip from 25 Feb 2002):
> >
> >http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/viewft.cfm?uc_full_date=20020225&uc_comic=ft&uc_daction=X
> >
> >"Jeff Hinrichs" <jlh at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Is *nix going  mainstream or what?
> >>http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/viewft.htm
> >>
> >>-Jeff
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