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From: murphyn@motcid.UUCP (Neal P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Protections on various files
Message-ID: <6743@bone13.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 19:24:29 GMT
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n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes:

...
>My specific question is concerning pcomm and zmodem programs.  Currently,
>pcomm is (bin,bin) with rwsr-xr-x permissions.  I have the zmodem programs

chmod u-s pcomm

will unset the set-uid bit in the mode. Right now, whenever you run it, it ends
up running as user 'bin'; and bin, most likely, does not have write access to
the directory to which you are transfering the file.

NPN