11-30-2011
setuid & sticky bit
Can anyone explain me difference between setuid and sticky bit? and also between setuid and chown?
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INTRO(7) BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual INTRO(7)
NAME
intro -- miscellaneous information pages
DESCRIPTION
This section contains miscellaneous documentation, including:
ascii(7) map of ASCII character set
c(7) the C programming language
environ(7) user environment
glob(7) shell-style pattern matching
hier(7) file system hierarchy in NetBSD
hostname(7) host name resolution description
mailaddr(7) mail addressing description
mdoc(7) macros for typesetting -mdoc style manual pages
mdoc.samples(7) tutorial for writing BSD manuals with -mdoc
module(7) kernel modules
nls(7) overview of national language support
operator(7) C operator precedence and order of evaluation
orders(7) orders of magnitude
pkgsrc(7) the NetBSD packages collection
release(7) layout of NetBSD releases and snapshots
script(7) how interpreter scripts are executed
security(7) security features available in NetBSD
setuid(7) checklist for security and setuid programs
signal(7) available signals under NetBSD
sticky(7) sticky bit (S_ISVTX) handling
symlink(7) symbolic link handling
sysctl(7) system information variables in NetBSD
tests(7) NetBSD test suite
HISTORY
The intro(7) manual page appeared in 4.2BSD.
BSD
March 18, 2011 BSD