Re: basic directory perm question
On 24-Apr-2002 justin cunningham wrote:
> Why is it that when I create a directory on one machine an 's' is added
> to the permissions?
>
> Ex. drwxr-sr-x 2 sam sam 4096 Apr 24 05:17 test
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 05:18 test2
>
> while on another machine this is not the case. I compared /etc/skel
> files and there the same. what's wrong?
>
at the prompt type 'umask' and it will show you the current umask your shell is
using. When you write,create,etc a file this umask is subtracted from 777.
~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or even ~/.profile could be responsible.
The s means that when a file is written your group gets permissions.
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