[plug] file permissions

[James Elliott]

Thanks for the info Craig - I think Tony Breeds-Turima did an excellent job
of explainining the significance of S, s, T, and t (see today's PLUG
e-mails)

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] file permissions


> > sometimes you see and "S" or  "t" when you do and ls -l ... what do
these
> > mean, please, and are there any other permissions?
>
> Well a lowercase "s" in the execute column of the user or group bits
> means an suid-user or suid-group binary respectively.
> The "type" column is usually "-" (file) or "d" (dir) but can also be
> "c" (char device)
> "b" (block device)
> "s" (unix socket)
> "p" (named pipe / fifo)
>
> I've never seen a cap "S" or a "t" before. Can you send in some ls -l
> output showing what files they're on and in what parts of the perms?
>
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