Re: [cobalt-users] Directory permissions - what is an "s"

[jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

"John Burgess" <john.burgess@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> set user or group id on execution.  These are typically referred to as suid

Not quite. We're talking _directories_ not files.

On directories having the setgid bit set, means that files created
there will by default have the group membership of the directory
they're created in.

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