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Re: Understanding the files attributs



On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:06:36PM +0100, TITUS SARL wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> First, thank you very much for the wonderful work you did with this
> distribution.
> 
> I spent hours to understand how functions the "s" attribut.
> 
> In a course on Samba, I read the explanation about the exercice:
> root# chmod -R ug+rwxs,o-w,o+rx /data   .....
> 
> .... and the chmod operation recursively sets the permissions so
> that the owner and group have SUID/SGID with read/write/execute
> permission, and everyone else has read and execute permission. This
> means that all files and directories are created with the same
> owner and group as the directory in which they are created. Any new
> directories created still have the same owner, group, and
> permissions as the directory they are in.
> 
> I practised and was unable to produce the result so waited.
> I created a directory:   drwsrws--- user  user  date-time   test 
> and inside another one: test2
> The result is:   user@mymachine:/test$ ls -l
>      drwxr-sr-x        user    user   date-time   test2
> 
> The user and group OK but the "permissions as the directory they
> are in..." waouhh...

See basics at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tutorial.en.html#s-file-perm



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