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From: "Denis Eremenko <moonshade@pnhz.kz>" <moonshade@pnhz.kz>
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Subject: chmod(1) man page does not mention root owned dirs exemption with suiddir
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>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:          closed
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 27 03:20:17 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Sat Oct 07 21:39:32 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 07 21:39:32 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Denis Eremenko <moonshade@pnhz.kz>
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386
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System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 25 17:21:01 ALMT 2006
    root@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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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ceri 
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 7 21:37:30 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
The chmod(1) man page does say "see chmod(2) and the suiddir 
option to mount(8)", and both of those state that this does not work for 
root owned directories.  I honestly believe that three places is enough. 



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