Mark Post wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 1:43 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "McKown,
John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is somewhat off- topic because I'm asking due to what I've noticed
on my desktop Linux. But why are some things "setgid"? Is it just so
that some files and/or subdirectories can be written to? I ask because
I've noticed that most of the games on my desktop have the setgid bit on
and have a group of "games". Anybody know why? What does the game do
that needs a "setgid"?
John,
Just what do you mean by "setgid?" According to the man page, "setgid sets the effective
group ID of the current process." If you mean doing things like "chmod 2755" that's a
different story. That means that any files that get created in that directory will be assigned the same
group ownership as what is on the directory, not the group id of the process/person creating the file.
Unless you chmod a program. Then, it runs in that group.
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Cheers
John
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