[ic] socket permission group
John Young
john_young at sonic.net
Tue May 11 16:36:03 EDT 2004
Kevin Walsh wrote:
> John Young [john_young at sonic.net] wrote:
>>Set the group sticky bit on the directory in which it resides.
>>
>>chmod g+s directoryname
>>
>
> That's the "set group ID" bit - not the "sticky bit".
>
> ** pedantic mode disengaged **
>
> :-)
Ah, yes, quite right (as usual)! I typed that just after noon -- far
too early for me (insufficient sugar and caffiene intake).
The sticky bit, of course, is the little trick for protecting
one's files in a shared writable space such as /tmp. That, or
the area of one's keyboard where one spilled their Jolt cola.
Thanks, Kevin ;-)
-JY
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