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From: hsi!stepstone.com!aad@uunet.uu.net (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: 4.0 likes s and S protections?
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Date: 20 Dec 88 18:08:49 GMT
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Original-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 88 17:21:52 EST
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 65, message 15 of 22

What's with all these s's and S's?

beaker% ls -ldg .
drwxrwsr-x 10 aad      developm      512 Dec 10 17:19 ./
beaker% pwd
/home/aad
beaker% chmod 700 .
beaker% ls -ldg .
drwx--S--- 10 aad      developm      512 Dec 10 17:19 ./
beaker% 
beaker% chmod 700 .
beaker% ls -ldg .
drwx--S--- 10 aad      developm      512 Dec 10 17:19 ./

[[ In this context, 's' means setgid and 'S' means setgid with no group
execute permission.  Now why permissions are set this way on directories I
don't know.  --wnl ]]