What does it mean - permissions

[Pablito Maguicay_1]

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

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

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

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

[Cem Tugrul]

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

[Cem Tugrul]

this link is more significant;

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

Good Luck,

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Andrew Merritt_2]

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

[Gregory Fruth]

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.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

man chmod and search for sticky bit.

HTH.

Best regards,
Fabio

[Devesh Pant_1]

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

[Pablito Maguicay_1]

hi All,

Thanks for all your support.

GOD Bless you all and GOD Speed


Pabs