SUDO/SU Password Issue

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 8 00:30:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:02:12AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> As you can see, the permissions are set to 4111, or u=sx,go=x. The s 
> stands for "sticky" and means, that the program will be executed with
> the rights of the *OWNER* of the file (in this case: root). Normally,
> programs are executed with the rights of the person who executes the
> program.

Close; it stands for "setuid".

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 - mdz




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