Sticky Bit

[Nobody's Hero]

How do I get rid of the sticky bit on a directory with chmod?

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

chmod -t directory


Rgds...GEoff

[Nobody's Hero]

Actually I have a directory that is
rwxrwSr--

and I want it to be

rwxrwx---

[RAC_1]

rwxrwSr--

and I want it to be

rwxrwx---

Do chmod 774 file_name

[Helen French]

# chmod 770 dir_name

[PVR]

Hi,

rwxrwSr-- Means SUID bit is set for group. it is not sticky bit.

Do #chmod 770 dirname

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

The capital 'S' implies that the real mode of your directory is 2764: rwx for owner, rw and sgid on group and readable to world.

A sgid on a directory results in files created there will be automatically of the group of the directory.

To remove a sgid bit on the directory, you can do:
chmod g-s

This will not result in the drwxrwxr-- mode you want in this case (because the 'S' is upper and not lower case).