topic Re: change mode in Operating System - HP-UX

change mode

Krisklan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:49:30 GMT

Hi,
Just a small qustion:
how do I change the file permissions of a file which presently shows:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root sys 96 jobs

to the file permissions i need as:

drwxrwsr-x 2 root bin 96 jobs

Points shall be awarded for any help. thanks!

Re: change mode

Torsten. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:57:38 GMT

Permissions are the same, the owner **group** is different.

see

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-60631/chown.1.html

man chgrp

Re: change mode

Deepak Kr — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:01:51 GMT

Hi

Use following command:

#chgrp bin jobs
or
#chown root:bin jobs
#ll -d jobs
you should get
drwxrwsr-x 2 root bin 96 jobs

jobs is a directory here

Re: change mode

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:10:07 GMT

Hi:

# chmod g+s jobs

or:

# chmod 2775 jobs

See the manpages for 'chmod'.

By the wsy, you presented the permissions for a directory, not a file, although that doesn't matter for the solution.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: change mode

Tim Nelson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:14:07 GMT

chmod 2775 jobs

The suid bit on a directory forces all new files created in the directory to the directories group. In this case bin.

This is different than setting the suid bit on a file, which would give anyone with execute permission to the file to run the file with the group's file permission.

Not really sure why you would want bin, but that is a different topic.

Re: change mode

Krisklan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:18:59 GMT

Thanks everybody. It helped!!