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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SUID directories -- security concern?
Message-ID: <13946@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 90 22:22:27 GMT
References: <14198@s.ms.uky.edu> <12157@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2946@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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In article <2946@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>
> >>I've never seen any code to make use of a SUID directory, ...
> >
> >It can't be set-UID.  Probably if it has a meaning (which I cannot tell
>
>The common extension of that flavor with which I'm familiar uses the
>"sticky bit" rather than the set-UID bit - at least it does in 4.3BSD


There's another option, that is the capital S. That translates to
"keep the same permissions below this directory" - or so I hear.


						-Kartik


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