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Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups



Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 06:17:26PM -0700, Tonnesen Steve wrote:
> > Someone else mentioned that running chown will strip the set[ug]id bit.
> > This didn't happen when I tried it.  Is it supposed to?
> 
> It looks like that only happens for non-root users. I thought that used
> to be the case for root also, but I could be wrong.

It changed to the current behavior somewhere toward the end of the 2.1.x
series. 

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see shy jo


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