[978] in athena10
Re: Permissions on /mit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sat Jan 24 22:46:37 2009
To: Brian Neltner <neltnerb@mit.edu>
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
From: ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:45:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1232778695.4554.12.camel@gibbs-duhem> (Brian Neltner's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:31:35 -0500")
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Brian Neltner <neltnerb@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Odd, it must have changed the setuid bit when I chgrp'd it.
Yes, that's a standard security feature, to avoid accidentally
granting inappropriate privileges; I'm sorry you ran afoul of it.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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