Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Subject: Re: ext3 to include capabilities? | Date | Sat, 3 Apr 1999 04:40:06 -0500 (EST) |
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Richard Gooch writes: > Albert D. Cahalan writes:
>> Well, which do people prefer? (sticky bit or setuid bit) > > Ths suid but, of course, since setting it is privileged. Thus it is > obvious that it is a privileged binary.
Oh my, do we have a bug? The sticky bit is normally for root only. Here is Digital UNIX:
$ touch bits $ chmod 7777 bits $ ls -l bits -rwsrwsrwx 1 acahalan acahalan 0 Apr 3 04:37 bits
As you can see, a normal user can not set the sticky bit.
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