John MacLean wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anyone want to give me an explanation of the 'extended' permissions bits.
> Such as
> suid - program runs with root permissions?
> guid - program runs with group permissions?
> sticky - only original creator can delete? What about other members of the
> group? What about root? Does this hold even if others have write access?
>
> Are there other permissions (beyond the normal -rwxrwxrwx)?
> What is the numeric abbreviation for these (eg chmod 0755 filename)?
>
> Useful URLs just as welcome as a detailed response.
Not sure about the urls but if you try the info command and put your cursor
in the File utilities menu option, press enter and then go to the File
Permissions menu item and press enter (you get the idea) it does a more thatn
fair job explaining the permissions for files in linux. Also explains what
the various options do for files versus directories.
HTH
Bret
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