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setuid sticky bit
I have a binary. It is having the following permissions

rws rws rwx mqm:mqm runmqtrm

The same program on another machine is

rws rws rwx root: mqm runmqtrm

This program is a setuid program.
This is what my understanding is. Whatever user the program is started under, it will finally be running as rmuser.

Now if I start the program as root on the second one it starts ok.
If I start the program as mqm on the first box it doesn't work. On the second box if I start it as root it works.

Can somebody explain me this.

Thanks
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INSTALLDEB-ASPELL(1)													      INSTALLDEB-ASPELL(1)

NAME

       installdeb-aspell - debhelper-like utility for maintainers of aspell dictionary Debian packages

SYNOPSIS

	installdeb-aspell [debhelper options]

DESCRIPTION

       installdeb-aspell is a debhelper like program that is responsible for installing appropriate debhelper snippets in an aspell dictionary
       package, according to the Debian Spell Dictionaries and Tools Policy.

       For more details, see
	/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev/dsdt-policy.txt.gz

       The actions executed by installdeb-aspell are the following:

       o   Maintainer Scripts

	   installdeb-aspell installs the necessary scraps of code in the postinst and postrm scripts.

       o   Language info file

	   installdeb-aspell also checks a file containing aspell dictionary information, called debian/info-aspell or debian/package.info-aspell.
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	   fields in $lang.info-aspell, containing base name(s) of your compat and, if needed, contents file(s).  If 'auto-compat' entry is found
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	   list.  Unless previous stuff exists, /usr/lib/aspell}/$dict.rws -> /var/lib/aspell/$dict.rws symlinks will also be automatically
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OPTIONS

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NOTES

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SEE ALSO

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