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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!staff.cc.purdue.edu!bj From: bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Sticky bit on directory question Date: 30 Jul 1994 20:45:22 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <31ee52$pvh@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <CtrKx8.857@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: staff.cc.purdue.edu In article <CtrKx8.857@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, Jacques Legare <jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> wrote: >I have the permissions on my /usr/local/lib/TeX/fonts/pk directory as follows > >drwx---r-t 2 root tex 1024 Jul 30 13:26 p > >but an unprivilidged user can _still_ not create files in this directory. In order to create files in a directory, a user must have write privs for it. The sticky bit just prevents users from deleting files and directories owned by other people. The mode you probably want on that directory is 1777 (rwxrwxrwt), just like /tmp. If you make it 1707, users in group tex won't be able to create files in it. -- Ben Jackson, bj@cc.purdue.edu