Re: what does the s stand for

[Nitebirdz <nitebirdz@sacredchaos.com>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:01:33PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > and what does the s here stands for?
> 
> > ..read output of 'info chmod'.
> 
> That was not very helpful to get the answer. Try 'man chmod'.  It has a
> good explanation in the 5th paragraph under 'Description'.
> 

The following documents may be of some help too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~jack/ifsm498d/filesystem.html


Search for the section titled "SUID, SGID, and Sticky bit file
permissions" on the second document.  


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