Protections on various files

[Neal P. Murphy]

n138ct at tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes:

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>My specific question is concerning pcomm and zmodem programs.  Currently,
>pcomm is (bin,bin) with rwsr-xr-x permissions.  I have the zmodem programs

chmod u-s pcomm

will unset the set-uid bit in the mode. Right now, whenever you run it, it ends
up running as user 'bin'; and bin, most likely, does not have write access to
the directory to which you are transfering the file.

NPN