Filesystem Permissions

[Nobody's Hero]

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

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Robert,

Try "chmod g-s /dirname".


Pete

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi RPM,

Run
chmod 764 /mnt_point

Do this *after* the FS has been mounted.

HTH,
Jeff

[Denver Osborn]

use this..

chmod 0764 /path/mydir

-Denver

[Umapathy S]

Robert,
That denotes the SetGroupId bit for the filesystem.

chmod 0764 will do it.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Brian Bergstrand]

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.