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From: jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Jacques Legare)
Subject: Sticky bit on directory question
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Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 17:36:43 GMT
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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.

The user (tcomnade uid 100) has the following groups
(no he's not a member of the group tex!)

wheel tcom

where tcom is 500.

Can anyone tell me what is going on?