Raja R Harinath wrote:
> There's no 'setgid' bit on the /tmp directory. Does BSD still exhibit
> 'setgid' behaviour?
To back up what Eric Siegerman said, I believe setgid behavior is the
(unavoidable?) default on BSD systems, but I just started playing with them so
don't ask me to start quoting version numbers. :)
> I don't thing the sticky tag changes 'setgid'
> behaviour of a directory.
Huh?
> * What are the permissions on /tmp/myfile?
> rm /tmp/myfile
rm: /tmp/myfile: No such file or directory
> touch /tmp/myfile
> ls -l /tmp/myfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 cvstest wheel 0 Jan 20 19:57 /tmp/myfile
Wheel is gid 0: my NFS server's root group id.
> * Can you create files in the your home directory?
Yes:
> cd
> rm myfile
rm: myfile: No such file or directory
> touch myfile
> ls -l myfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 cvstest cvstest 0 Jan 21 01:00 myfile
> * Are you in, or did you change with newgrp(1) to, group 'wheel'?
I am not in it and I have never, ever, in my entire life, used the newgrp
command:
> id
uid=506(cvstest) gid=506(cvstest) groups=506(cvstest)
> Still, I'm starting to agree with you that cp/rm makes more sense than
> mv to move files across mount points, what with the way file ownership
> and NFS interact.
:)
Derek
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