[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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>-laweber
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