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Old 05-13-2008, 06:09 PM
Tim Bradshaw
 
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Default Re: Setting the sticky bit using symbol

On May 12, 9:32 pm, cnu...@yahoo.com wrote:

> ls -ld OpC
> drwxrwsrwx 2 root bin 512 Mar 20 22:04 OpC
>
> chmod o+t OpC
>


It's not o+t, it's +t. The sticky bit happens to show up in ls where
the "o" permission bits normally live, but that's just an artifact of
ls wanting to produce a fixed-width output - it has nothing to do with
permissions for other.

--tim
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