From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 0:25:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6843214F66 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id JAA49600; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:58:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:58:53 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stickybit (Was: Permissions for users in general) Message-ID: <19991027095853.E34924@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <26526.940948091@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <4.1.19991026211759.009434a0@mail.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991026211759.009434a0@mail.udel.edu>; from John on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:35:07PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:35:07PM -0400, John wrote: > A slighty very much unix newbie question, but... > > I've never fully understood what the sticky bit is supposed to do? > > I pulled out the Red-covered SysAdmin book (by Evi Nemeth, etc), and they > seem to at first say that the sticky bit is an ancient relic and is ignored > by 'modern kernels'. They then go on to say that if it's set on a > directory that it prevents you from deleting or renaming files unless > you're the owner of the directory, file, or the su. > > Trying to understand that... does that mean that pretty much the > permissions of the 'group' and 'other' have no bearing or point if the > sticky bit is set? (ie: if set to -rwxrwxrwx with the sticky bit on, does > that mean still only the owner can erase? not even a group member?) > > Just another nuance to try to understand :) > > Thanks in advance, > John > See sticky(8). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message