[oclug] suid on directory.

[Francis J. A. Pinteric]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:07:57 -0400 (EDT)
"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Francis J. A. Pinteric wrote:
> 
> > When you suid a directory and then give other people write
> > permission on it, any file created by other people in that directory
> > are chgrouped to the owner of that directory.
> 
> That's sgid, not suid.  Suid doesn't do anything.
> 

Right, right  right.

The suid bit is the transdimensional interlink bit. <blush>


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