On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:25:30PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote:
> I would grately appreciate some help in understanding
> file permissions.
> The first one is the lower and uppercase 's' in:
>
> drwxr-sr-x ?? 2 rland ?? rland ?? ? ? 4096 Jun? 4 11:43 files
> drwx--S--- ?? 2 rland ?? rland ?? ? ? 4096 Sep 27? 2001 nsmail
The info documentation for ls says this:
`s'
If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable
bit are both set.
`S'
If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding
executable bit is not set.
> Then, some file permission strings have a? 'b' (=blockdevice?)
Yes.
> and a 'c' - what are these for ?
Character device. Both of these refer to various device drivers in the
kernel.
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