Re: [cobalt-users] Please pity a newbie...file permissions

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 11:44, Dana Millaway wrote:
> drwxr-sr-x   20 ddisher  home         2048 Feb  2 16:03 teachers

The "S" stands for Set-Group-ID (SGID)

There are actually 12 bits that go into a "mode" setting

XXX (in a moment) and the Owner, Group, World read/write/execute

Most people know the rwxrw-rw- pretty well (mode 766), but few know the
upper set (leading XXX) which are

4 - set UID (set the owner to be this owner when run/accessed)
2 - set GID (set the group to be this group when run/accessed)
1 - set the execute to be this owner/group (if in position 1 or 2)
or
1 - set the directory/file to be "sticky" (not removable) if in the 3rd 
position.

so your mode is 2755 from above.

Answer to second question:  NO if left as is.

chmod on the directory to 2775 and both the owner _and_ their group will have 
write access to the directory (which includes any other users under that site 
by the way)....

-- 
Larry Smith
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