[TUHS] Who's behind the UNIX filesystem permission

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Aug 3 07:23:12 AEST 2019


On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:

> Sticky bit is the low-order bit on the first octet which is usually left 
> off and assumed to be zero. So to set it, it would be 1755. 4755 would 
> be setuid.

That's why I use the symbolic modes on "chmod" instead of the octal ones :-)

-- Dave


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