SU Question

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Thu May 12 10:31:59 PDT 2005


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:19:31AM -0700, Dixit, Viraj wrote:
 
> Final question, I notice the rights of "su" on another system were
> like this "-r-sr-xr-x". What's the rule of setting the option "s" in
> the permissions. Thanks!

You can set this bit (the setuid bit) with chmod. See the chmod manual
page for details and an explanation of the different mode bits.

Roland
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