Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 20:52:58 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: evanc@synapse.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setuid on directory Message-ID: <199806120352.UAA07626@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <004601bd9197$2666c340$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> References: <004601bd9197$2666c340$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>
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Oops. I wrote: > In article <004601bd9197$2666c340$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>, > Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> wrote: > > > The manpage for chmod(1) says that if one sets the setuid bit on a > > directory, files created within that directory will be owned by the owner of > > the directory and not the uid of the current process. > > I suppose that pedantically speaking the man page is correct, since it > goes on to say "if the underlying file system supports this feature: > see chmod(2) and the suiddir option to mount(1)." Of course, no > filesystems support this feature, and the suiddir option to mount(1) > doesn't exist, as far as I can tell. :-) I was wrong. It seems the "suiddir" option does exist after all. I don't know whether it works or not. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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