[Novalug] Gzip security hole?

Angelo Bertolli angelo@freeshell.org
Sat Sep 15 11:21:42 EDT 2007


Actually u+s is setuid, g+s is setgid, and I just checked o+s doesn't 
work at all.  It also doesn't give me an error.  But o+s SHOULD be the 
sticky bit position, so I don't know why they use +t.  Maybe because it 
doesn't mean the same thing the other ones do.

Mike Shade wrote:
> No, actually.  +s is setuid.
>
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>> DonJr wrote:
>>> For how to set the "sticky bit" see 'man chmod'
>>>    chmod +t file{or directory}
>>
>> This is the same thing as chmod o+s right?  ;)
>>
>>
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