topic Re: Setting permissions correctly in Operating System - HP-UX

Setting permissions correctly

Randy Brown_1 — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:49:36 GMT

While applying sendmail patches, I ran into the following:
I replaced /usr/sbin/sendmail with the patched version. Whe I compared it to the old one using ls -l the permissions appeared as follows:
-r-Sr-Sr-T
instead of
-r-sr-sr-t
How can I correct this? Thank you!

Randy

Re: Setting permissions correctly

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:55:27 GMT

Hi Randy:

# chmod 7555 /usr/sbin/sendmail

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Setting permissions correctly

Hai Nguyen_1 — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:57:52 GMT

Randy,

# chmod 7555 filename

Hai

Re: Setting permissions correctly

Helen French — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:00:34 GMT

You could do this:

# chmod 7555 /usr/sbin/sendmail.

The reason why it was showing captial letters, becuase the permissions didn't have the execute permission (x) set for user, group and others. With 555, you will set the r-x combination and with 7555 you will set owner-id (s) and group-ID (s) and sticky bit (t)

Re: Setting permissions correctly

Randy Brown_1 — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:04:46 GMT

That did it. Thanks!!

Randy