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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx...
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Larry W. Virden, x2487 |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx... |
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Fri, 9 May 1997 04:25:20 -0400 |
Re: For the benefit of us pseudo-sysadmins not worth their salt, would someone
> be willing to explain `setting the sticky bit' of a directory, how to know
> if it is set properly, and if it is not, how to set it? Many TIA.
I would suggest starting by reading the man page for chmod(1) and chmod(2).
This is one place at least where Solaris 2.x documents the chmod number
to use .
However, as a summary. The sticky bit is, as I mentioned earlier, a
way to indicate that within a directory, a group or everyone can create
files in a directory, but that these files can only be deleted or renamed by
the owner or root.
On Solaris, the stickyness of a directory comes from an extra permission
number added to the chmod against tmp. One might say
chmod 1777 /tmp
to mark /tmp as sticky. When I do an
ls -l /tmp
I see
drwxrwxrwt 4 sys sys 1406 May 9 04:23 /tmp
See the t at the end of the permissions? That's how Solaris 2.x marks
the directory as sticky.
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/05/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Bela Lubkin, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Jonathan Sergent, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Jonathan Sergent, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Klaus Weide, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Jonathan Sergent, 1997/05/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/05/09
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/05/09
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Brian Tillman, x8425, 1997/05/09
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/05/09
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/05/09