Permissions on a SCO Unix exported file

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:30:43 -0400):

> This public service announcement was brought to you by Mike Schwartz:
>>      User "filepro" probably just doesn't have permission to create files in
>> the individual user subdirs (IE, /u/mike), even though all users are members
>> of the groups "filepro" and "group" and user filepro is a member of the
>> groups filepro and group.  For example, the permissions on "mike" are
>> drwxr-xr-x (note the lack of a "w" for group), so this code is not working,
>> even though we are in the same groups:
>
> fP programs are SUID, not SGID.  Groups are -wholly irrelevant- for the
> purposes of fP, given the stock permissions.  Do not depend on them, do not
> expect them to be honoured by fP.

I wouldn't call them "wholly irrelevant".  Because filePro is running as
setuid and not setgid, your group remains as it was before starting filePro.
As such, filePro will "honor" them in the sense that it doesn't touch the
group ID.

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