On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. > > I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have > something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I > way off here?
The sticky bit (chmod +t) on a directory just makes it so that anyone can write to that directory but not modify files they did not make. -- Andrew
