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- From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: setgid permission on directories
- Message-ID: <Sep01.154912.18852@cdsac.uucp>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:49:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.171507.10029@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug31.171507.10029@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> carol@phoenix.oise.on.ca (Carol Broderick) writes:
- > [...] Can anyone
- >tell me why this happened? More importantly now, does setgid permission
- >for a directory actually do anything? Please email and I will summarize.
-
- $ man 3 chmod
-
- [ ... ]
-
- S_ISGID Enables the setgid attribute for an executable file. A
- process executing this program acquires the access rights of the
- group of the file.
-
- Enables the group inheritance attribute for a directory. Files
- created in this directory have a group equal to the group of the
- directory.
-
- [ ... ]
-
- This probably happened because the directory in which you placed the files
- is set SGID.
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- L. Scott Emmons
- CableData Research Center
- csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
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