On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:56, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote:
> > 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,
> >
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote:
> 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
according to the fine find manual that's for a
it's a link. do 'ls -al filename' and it should point to the original.
On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:49, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm):
>
> ---
> The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows:
> [...]
> s
>From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm):
---
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.
---
What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or
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
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