RE: permission problem - maybe capitalization

[Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS)]

That is what we thought too, but here is what the permissions look like for
the directories

drwxrwsr-x

Everything seems to be pointing to sticky bit but it doesn't show up in the
permissions
?????

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> To:   Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS)
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> Subject:      Re: permission problem - maybe capitalization
> 
> Stanton, Curt writes:
> > 
> > I have two users UserA and UserB
> > They both belong to GroupA
> > 
> > DirA is where all the files are
> > UserA is the owner of DirA and
> > GroupA is the group of DirA
> > 
> > The problem is that UserB can only commit files that he owns, but UserA
> can
> > commit any file.
> > What might the problem be?
> 
> You have some sort of "unusual" permissions set on the directory.  If
> it's a Unix system, you probably have the sticky bit set -- that
> prevents anyone from deleting a file except the owner of the file or the
> owner of the directory (most likely, someone got confused when trying to
> get BSD filesystem semantics in the directory and set the sticky bit
> rather than the set-group-id bit).
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> You're going to be pretty lonely in the nursing home. -- Calvin