Re: s-bit [solved]

Asking around on #debian solved this: a shell script can't run as another user because the actual executable that get's loaded is the shell and not the script. It seems that perl does honour the s-bit on a perl-script. Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

s-bit

Hi All, I am trying to get the s-bit to work on a shell script, but can't get it going: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >ls -al j.sh -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 16 2006-04-27 22:13 j.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >./j.sh 522 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >cat j.sh #

Re: s bit on owner permission for dir

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:15:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm a little confused on the what > the s bit does for the owner of a directory. > For example > > drwsr-sr--joe staff /var/www > > I understand that the s bit on the group pe

s bit on owner permission for dir

Hi, I'm a little confused on the what the s bit does for the owner of a directory. For example drwsr-sr--joe staff /var/www I understand that the s bit on the group permission would make all new files and directories under /var/www have equal group ownership to /var/www but