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RE: Permission Mode



On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:

: 
: On 29-Oct-97 Bao C. Ha wrote:
: >
: >What is the permission mode of S (capital S), like
: >-r-Sr--r-- fpexe ???
: >
: The S setuid in the position you show above or setgid in -r-xr-S---. You set
: the setuid bit as above by:
: 
: chmod 4544 fpexe

Well, close.  The capital "S" indicates that there is _no_ underlying
execute permission, so in this case the suid bit is useless.

kepler:~ $ touch test
kepler:~ $ ls -lF test
-rw-r-----   1 nnorman  nnorman         0 Oct 28 16:50 test
kepler:~ $ chmod 4544 test
kepler:~ $ ls -lF test
-r-sr--r--   1 nnorman  nnorman         0 Oct 28 16:50 test*
kepler:~ $ chmod 4444 test
kepler:~ $ ls -lF test
-r-Sr--r--   1 nnorman  nnorman         0 Oct 28 16:50 test

: 
: Run "man chmod" for more detail.
: 
: >How do I set something like that?

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