Re: "S" file permissions
OK so it's in the ls docs, but it's not in the chmod docs, which is what I
was talking about.
Anyway, what's the point of this?
O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration" says it sets mandatory
file-locking on that file. Any insight into this?
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad <lists@anomie.dhis.org>
To: Jim B <vader@conflict.net>
Cc: Debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: "S" file permissions
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jim B wrote:
>
> > (Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.)
> >
> > Can someone explain what this execute bit means?
> >
> > IOW, what is the difference between "s" (suid) and "S" (?)?
> >
> > I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV
> > standard. Someone else said it's "super-suid" or suid without eXecute
(but
> > how can you have suid without executing?).
> >
> > Can anyone enlighten me?
> >
> > (It's not in the info or man pages.)
>
> It is in the info page. "info ls", then choose the "What information is
> listed" link, then scroll down to the -l option.
>
> Here's the quote:
> The permissions listed are similar to symbolic mode specifications
> (*note Symbolic Modes::.). But `ls' combines multiple bits into
> the third character of each set of permissions as follows:
> `s'
> If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable
> bit are both set.
>
> `S'
> If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding
> executable bit is not set.
>
>
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