What does the "s" bit stand for in the beginning of a folder/files POSIX permissions?<BR><BR>I know that s can stand for "setuid" in for owner and group (to escalate permissions in special ...
In last month's issue, I talked about Linux permissions (see "It's Better to Ask Forgiveness..." in the May 2015 UpFront section). I could have covered SUID, GUID and sticky bit in the same article, ...
Group sticky bit. If this is a directory, files created under it will have the same group as the directory. For a file, the group sticky bit isn't used anymore and has no effect, AFAIK.
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