docs/103700: chmod(1) man page does not mention root owned dirs exemption with suiddir

Wed Sep 27 03:20:20 UTC 2006

>Number:         103700
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       chmod(1) man page does not mention root owned dirs exemption with suiddir
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 27 03:20:17 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Denis Eremenko <moonshade at pnhz.kz>
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 25 17:21:01 ALMT 2006
    root at abyss.pnhz.kz:/usr/obj/data/os/FreeBSD/src/6/src/sys/ABYSS-6

>Description:

"man chmod" says nothing about root owned dirs issue with suiddir in description of 4000 mode (setuid bit). But sys/conf/NOTES does: "Root owned directories are exempt and X bits are cleared". Having this note in chmod man page would make using suiddir less confusing.

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