topic Re: What does it mean - permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

What does it mean - permissions

Pablito Maguicay_1 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:53:37 GMT

Hi all,

lrwxrwxrwt 1 root sys 8 Nov 6 2003 tmp -> /var/tmp

What is the meaning of t in lrwxrwxrwt in file permissions

Thanks and best regards

Pabs

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Joseph Loo — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:00:01 GMT

hi,

that is sticky bit. "man chmod" for more detail.

regards.
(p.s. please remember to assign points.)

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Cem Tugrul — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:10:33 GMT

Pablito,

Joseph is right...
go to links below;
http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/james/search.do?todo=search&searchtext=sticky+bit&from=forums&origin=0&wpa=forums2.itrc.hp.com%3A80&searchcategory=ALL&hpl=1&searchcriteria=allwords&rn=25&source=7000&presort=rank&chkServStor=on&esc=support.itrc.hp.com&admit=552267591+1121854159616+28353475

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Cem Tugrul — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:12:46 GMT

this link is more significant;

http://forums2.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=926834

Good Luck,

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:20:09 GMT

t represents Add or delete the save-text-image-on-file-execution (sticky bit) permission.

It can be setup as,

chmod 1 file

More informations are available in chmod(1) and chmod(2) man pages.

hth.

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Andrew Merritt_2 — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:23:36 GMT

Since it's a symbolic link, the 't' doesn't actually indicate anything, the effective permissions are those on the file or directory that the link points to.

Andrew

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Gregory Fruth — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:15:33 GMT

Symlinks which have the sticky bit set
might be "transition links". They provide
backward compatability with older versions
of HP-UX. See /opt/upgrade for more
info.

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Fabio Ettore — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:20:51 GMT

Hi,

man chmod and search for sticky bit.

HTH.

Best regards,
Fabio

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Devesh Pant_1 — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:57:00 GMT

Pabs,
that that you see as pointed out by all others is a sticky bit but the /tmp being a symbolic link to another directory can not give the sticky bit properties to the real directory.
Sticky bit on a directory makes files inside the directory to be renamed or removed only by the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the superuser (even if the modes of the directory
would otherwise allow such an operation).

thanks
DP

Re: What does it mean - permissions

Pablito Maguicay_1 — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:53:27 GMT

hi All,

Thanks for all your support.

GOD Bless you all and GOD Speed

Pabs