|> On 15 Oct 98 04:03:47 GMT, David C Niemi <niemi@tux.org> wrote:
|>
|>
|> > In other variants of Unix, this test is not applied to directories, where
|> > the setgid bit does not have the same security implications as it does for
|> > files (rather it signals that BSD group ID behavior is to be used on new
|> Yes, it does. Anyone who is allowed to create files in that directory can
|> quite easily start a sgid-program to get membership of the group.
How that? The setgid bit of a directory is only inherited by directories,
not by the other types of files.
Andreas.
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