Re: File attribute 's' ??
>From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm):
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The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows:
[...]
s The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits.
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What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or
something?).
To get rid of the setuid bit, chmod it to something else. Maybe `chmod u-s
<file>` would be a place to start.
Manpages are your friend.
-nicole
At 15:42 on Nov 17, Rafe B. combined all the right letters to say:
> A certain text file has become un-editable
> and "invisible" to 'cat.'
>
> Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it
> has attribute 's' in the permissions string,
> eg:
>
> srwxr-xr-x
>
> The 's' is in the position that you'd normally
> find a 'd' or a hyphen.
>
> None of my manuals talk about this particular
> attribute. What does it mean, and more
> importantly, how do I get rid of it??
>
> Thanks in advance....
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> rafe b.
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