File Permissiosn ....

[David Bandel]

On 10/24/06, Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> Ok, I have an ELF binary .. what is the difference between file perms
> of :
>
> -rwSrwxrwx  1 bend appgen  1428 Aug 24  2006 testme
>
> And:
>
> -rwsrwxrwx  1 bend appgen  1428 Aug 24  2006 testme2
>
> Where the difference is only in Big SUID and little SUID ?

The capital means it _would_ be SUID, but the executable bit is NOT
set.  Make it executable for that user and you're good to go.  It's
the difference between this:
chmod 4777 testme
and:
chmod 4677 testme


>
> Thanks ...

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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