SetUID and SetGID question

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 17:51 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

You ar welcome.

> Thank you for this information.
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> Question: If the file foo has the following permissions:
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> -r---w----  1 someUser someGroup   36 2011-08-09 23:09 foo
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> and we access it with an executable, that has both SetUID and SetGID active:
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> -rwsr-sr-x  1 someUser someGroup  869 2011-07-26 17:38 someExecutable
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> Has this executable, both read and write access to the foo above?

Yes, it does.

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