Re: mc bug? or i've not read the manuals
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:32:54AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I suspect that both of you are editing these files as a user. I suspect
> (but haven't checked) that if you do the edit as root, that the bits will
> stay in place, but another user, who may have write permissions on the
> file should not be able to change the functionality and retain the
> setuidness. This seems like a proper quirk of the permissions system and
> nothing to do with the editor in question.
Unless something has changed, the setuid bit is ignored on scripts
anyway. I just tried to get one working on Linux 2.0.34 for demo
purposes and couldn't. Actually you lose the bit just doing an owner change
as root even.
Hamish
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