Juergen Braukmann wrote:
James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
HI All,
In Chmod, what do they mean by "Sticky Bit", ie 1000?
You can grant *other users* your rights running a binary. if the other user is permitted (group, world executeable) to run it, the programm is run with your UID. This can be a *big* securety risk, particulary if the granting party is root. But this would be 4000 (or 2000 for the rights of the files group), 1000 is -as man chmod tells- only used for directorys.
Juergen
My prior post speaks for my confusion. Isn't what you're talking about called the suid bit? George - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>