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Re: Can't get the set-user-id bit to work
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Can't get the set-user-id bit to work |
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Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:40:03 +0000 |
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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) wrote:
> Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>> OK, but mandb _is_ a member of the root group, so shouldn't it be able
>> to write files in /tmp with the permissions as they stand?
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> No, you'd have to make it setuid to root, or setgid to the root
> group. The user/group associations in /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> aren't involved.
OK. I get it. Ta.
sdt