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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
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- Subject: Re: setgid permission on directories
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.165020.29639@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:50:20 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:
- >and all the directories were restored with permission rwxr-sr-x. 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.
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- some smart friend of mine said:
- it's probably because the directory she restored into
- had the setgid bit set already. they propagate down
- the tree, I think. mkdir propagates it.
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