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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:48:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To:        Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
Cc:        davebullock@dwindledistribution.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chmod to death!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281947410.81109-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
In-Reply-To: <37279209.C41A5BE2@confusion.net>

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man chmod

4000    (the set-user-ID-on-execution bit) Executable files with
        this bit set will run with effective uid set to the uid of
        the file owner.  Directories with the set-user-id bit set
        will force all files and sub-directories created in them to
        be owned by the directory owner and not by the uid of the
        creating process, if the underlying file system supports
        this feature: see chmod(2) and the suiddir option to mount(1).


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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Laurence Berland wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance, what's the leading 4?
> 
> davebullock@dwindledistribution.com wrote:
> 
> > I really blew it... I did 'chmod -R 4755 /'
> 
> --
> Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> Windows 98: n.
>         useless extension to a minor patch release for
>         32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
>         16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
>         originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
>         written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
>         1 bit of competition.
> http://stuy.debate.net
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> 
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