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From: jgy@hropus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ls -l obscures important information
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 11:32:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 12 11:32:54 1987
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> I had a maddening problem in which a member of a group could not
> execute a program that was setgid to that group.  After some fuddling
> around I chmoded the program again and suddenly it worked.  Turned
> out that a mistake in a makefile had caused the program to be
> installed originally with mode 2701 - not executable by the group -
> but of course ls -l shows  rwx--s--x   as if all were well.
> 
> Jim Haynes
> ...ucbvax!ucscc!haynes
> haynes@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
> haynes@ucscc.bitnet
> 

On SVR2 systems if a 's' is NOT covering an 'x' it is shown in upper-case
so ls would have shown rwx--S--x