/var/spool/uucp sticky bit?
Seth Robertson
seth at sirius.ctr.columbia.edu
Tue Jul 11 06:15:12 AEST 1989
In article <4232 at kalliope.rice.edu> weltyc at fs3.cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 61, message 3 of 18
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>| Return-Path: <david at wubios.WUstl.EDU> From: david at wubios.WUstl.EDU
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>| Under SunOS the sticky bit for a directory means that files in that
>| directory can only be deleted or renamed by their owners. -David-
>
>Really? Do you know where/if this documented?
man 8 sticky
STICKY(8) MAINTENANCE COMMANDS STICKY(8)
Sticky Directories
A directory for which the sticky bit is set restricts dele-
tion of files it contains. A file in a sticky directory may
only be removed or renamed by a user who has write permis-
sion on the directory, and either owns the file, owns the
directory, or is the super-user. This is useful for direc-
tories such as /tmp, which must be publicly writable, but
should deny users permission to arbitrarily delete or rename
the files of others.
Any user may create a sticky directory. See chmod for
details about modifying file modes.
-Seth Robertson
seth at ctr.columbia.edu
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