Simon Geard wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 06:21 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote:
In getting to this point in Linux, I've read many times something to the
effect, "This needs to be setuid root." And that this means that the
"sticky bit" is set. Beyond that I can't find anything. What does
"setuid" r
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 06:21 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote:
> In getting to this point in Linux, I've read many times something to the
> effect, "This needs to be setuid root." And that this means that the
> "sticky bit" is set. Beyond that I can't find anything. What does
> "setuid" really mean? W
On 4/26/05, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The sticky bit is the fourth permission digit. So you have 4711
> instead of 711 for programs that retain the owner's(usually root)
> permissions.
>
Actually if the sticky bit is set you would have 1711, and if the suid
bit is set you get
On 4/26/05, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
> > Thanks, Andrew. But I asked for "good" documentation .
>
> Hit google for "Unix File Permissions". This will give you about 100
> really good hits...maybe add sticky to the search terms to find the ones
> that have really in
Dan McGhee wrote:
> Thanks, Andrew. But I asked for "good" documentation .
Hit google for "Unix File Permissions". This will give you about 100
really good hits...maybe add sticky to the search terms to find the ones
that have really in-depth explanations.
-- DJ Lucas
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http://linuxfromscratc
Andrew Benton wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
In getting to this point in Linux, I've read many times something to
the effect, "This needs to be setuid root." And that this means that
the "sticky bit" is set. Beyond that I can't find anything. What
does "setuid" really mean? What exactly does it do
Dan McGhee wrote:
In getting to this point in Linux, I've read many times something to the
effect, "This needs to be setuid root." And that this means that the
"sticky bit" is set. Beyond that I can't find anything. What does
"setuid" really mean? What exactly does it do? What does it cause
One of the reasons I switch to Linux and am now using BLFS is that I
wanted to know what was going on in the "bowels" of my PC. The
Package-User management system that Matthias Benkmann describes really
does this (thanks Matthias) and I really like using it.
There are a number of instances in
