Re: setuid/sticky bit on directories

From: Andrew Townsend (Andrew.Townsend_at_BISYS.COM)
Date: 02/18/05

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    I agree with Simon. It's best to find out what his business needs are then
    make your own recomendations.

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    There is no way of doing this. (Apart from running a job in the background
    to keep changing the ownership of new files, or something like that.)

    I'd go back a couple of steps: find out what the DBA actually requires
    rather than try to implement his "solution". When people find that things
    don't work, it's usually because they should have been doing something
    different in the first place. 

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Simon Green
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> Subject: setuid/sticky bit on directories
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> OK....maybe someone else here has an idea on what should be a simple
> basic unix question that I'm having trouble figuring out the
> answer to.
>
> I've got a db admin who wants to have a folder where when someone adds
> a file to it, it is owned to the owner of the directory (on an AIX
> box).
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