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

["John Burgess" <john.burgess@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry,  misread the question.  You are correct.

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> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jens Kristian
> Søgaard
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:48 AM
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> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Directory permissions - what is an "s"
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> "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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