drwxr-sr-x

[Michael Hipp]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sunday 20 February 2005 22:50, Michael Hipp enlightened us thusly:
> 
>>What does the 's' mean and why does it seem to show up randomly and
>>only in the group 'x' position?
>>
>>drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff         102 2005-02-20 21:40 samba
>>       ^
>>I just created that directory a few minutes ago with 'sudo mkdir
>>/home/samba'.
> 
> 
> It means that the setgid bit is set, meaning that files created in that 
> directory will automatically be ownder by the group that owns the 
> directory. We use this feature all the time at work. It's also how Red 
> Hat's user-private group scheme works.

So this means it's a "feature" rather than a bug, right? I suppose this 
means I better quit typing 'chmod -R g-s *' :-)

Michael