[wplug] File Permissions

William Powell billpwl1 at attbi.com
Thu Apr 3 11:36:34 EST 2003


That shows that the setuid or setgid bit has been set which gives anyone 
that runs that command, superuser privileges.  That is a source of many 
potential security problems.  That is the most basic explanation.

Bill

Weber, Larry A wrote:

>Can anyone explain what an "s" file permission is, and how it differs from
>"x"?  The man page for chmod isn't very helpful.
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