Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, "s" is the setuid and/or setgid permission: setuid in the user field, setgid in the group field. On files, setuid/setgid allow the group/user ID of the process started when invoking an executable file to be set to the group/user ID owning the file, respectively. Setting the setgid bit on a

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:42:37PM +, Aniartia wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > hey, > > > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > hey, > > > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home > > I thoug

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Aniartia
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home I thought s = execute with SUID And this is the point where I

Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home thanks for any info =) Sunny Dubey