topic Re: Filesystem Permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

Filesystem Permissions

Nobody's Hero — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:40:39 GMT

I have a filesystem, for oracle with the following permissions:

drwxr-sr-x

Why do I have a 'S' in group Permissions. I am not sure how it got there. How can I get rid of this and make the filesystem = 764 ?

Thanks,
RPM

Re: Filesystem Permissions

Pete Randall — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:42:45 GMT

Robert,

Try "chmod g-s /dirname".

Pete

Re: Filesystem Permissions

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:46:09 GMT

Hi RPM,

Run
chmod 764 /mnt_point

Do this *after* the FS has been mounted.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Filesystem Permissions

Denver Osborn — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:46:17 GMT

use this..

chmod 0764 /path/mydir

-Denver

Re: Filesystem Permissions

Umapathy S — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:06:52 GMT

Robert,
That denotes the SetGroupId bit for the filesystem.

chmod 0764 will do it.

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: Filesystem Permissions

Brian Bergstrand — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:08:11 GMT

The 's' (setgid) in the group perms of a directory means that any files created in that directory will be set to the group id of the directory. Some previous admin may have set this up so that users with different primary groups could still access/write to files in this directory. If you see a capital 'S', this is just unix warning you that the setgid will have no effect because execute permissions are not present.

HTH.