[Gllug] File permissions

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Sunny wrote:
> As far as i can remember, the setuid permission set on a directory is
> ignored on UNIX and Linux systems, but FreeBSD interprets it similarly to
> setgid, namely, all files and sub-directories are forced to be owned by the
> directory owner.

I did mention in passing in my original response that FreeBSD *can* be
made to do this; it does not do it by default.  The underlying
filesystem has to support this feature and it has to be explicitly
enabled at mount.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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