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Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Jan 26 08:27:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Guy Noire wrote:

> >  [tmp]$ chmod g+ws grouptest
>
> What is this in octal??

The problem is that octal perms are absolute, not relative. Assuming
that the grouptest directory originally had drwxr-xr-x (0755) perms,
then it'd be

  chmod 2775 grouptest

But octal perms can't be used for something like "give the group owner
write permission on all files and directories below this point." I
mean, you probably know that, but ...

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>




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