That means it is suid. It runs under the effective user id of the owner of the file. To make it this way you do a
chmod 4755 foo.pl I am sure there are more details to this, so consult the man pages for more info. (Maybe I should say consult the info pages :) brian On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:50:43AM +0000, john smith wrote: > what is the "s" letter stand for? r stands for read access,w write, and x > access files and subdirectories, I can even c a "d" i.e. > drwxr-xr-x. what does those stand for and what are their numerical access > mode values? to further add to my question, how do I give a user access so > that he/she will be able to use the pppd/pon command? > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
