Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal After setting S_ISUID and/or S_ISGID on a directory, it is impossible to remove those special permissions. For example:
rcshe...@miranda:~$ mkdir bug; ls -ld bug drwxr-xr-x 2 rcsheets rcsheets 4096 2010-11-22 23:30 bug rcshe...@miranda:~$ chmod -v 7755 bug; ls -ld bug mode of `bug' changed to 7755 (rwsr-sr-t) drwsr-sr-t 2 rcsheets rcsheets 4096 2010-11-22 23:30 bug rcshe...@miranda:~$ chmod -v 0755 bug; ls -ld bug mode of `bug' changed to 6755 (rwsr-sr-x) drwsr-sr-x 2 rcsheets rcsheets 4096 2010-11-22 23:30 bug -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org