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. ---------------- Nitebirdz http://www.sacredchaos.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111201162338.gb4...@dhcppc7.sacredchaos.com