Protections on various files
Neal P. Murphy
murphyn at motcid.UUCP
Fri Mar 22 05:24:29 AEST 1991
n138ct at tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes:
...
>My specific question is concerning pcomm and zmodem programs. Currently,
>pcomm is (bin,bin) with rwsr-xr-x permissions. I have the zmodem programs
chmod u-s pcomm
will unset the set-uid bit in the mode. Right now, whenever you run it, it ends
up running as user 'bin'; and bin, most likely, does not have write access to
the directory to which you are transfering the file.
NPN
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