Re: [linux][system] suid and file permissions

From: Bill Long (bill@longboys.net)
Date: 04/03/99


i'm running caldera. (gonna go buy redhat today tho. want to try it
out.)
i kinda like slackware.

George Greer wrote:
>
> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Michael Lemler wrote:
>
> >> okay. i have my mud set up to boot on system boot(from the rc.local
> >> file)
> >
> >*sniff sniff* Smells like slackware ... eww ;)
>
> # ls -l /etc/redhat-release /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1051 Mar 30 22:17 /etc/rc.d/rc.local*
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root           24 Nov  9  1997 /etc/redhat-release
>
> The sticky bit is mostly ignored in Linux anyway. Other Unix systems seem
> to make it a root-only keep-in-memory flag for things.
>
> --
> George Greer
> greerga@circlemud.org
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