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Questions tagged [sticky-bit]

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What did the sticky bit originally do when applied to files?

In various places one can see the "sticky bit" accused of nowadays being a complete misnomer, as its functionality nowadays is to affect the write permissions on directories and act as a restricted deletion flag. In an AskUbuntu answer the answerer…
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Why would a directory have the sticky bit set without the executable bit?

In Ubuntu 14.04, listing the contents of the directory /var/spool/cron with ls -l provides the following permissions on the directories within (irrelevant columns snipped): drwxrwx--T daemon daemon atjobs drwxrwx--T daemon daemon atspool drwx-wx--T…
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how do you find all files and directories without sticky bit?

how do you find all files and directories without sticky bit? I have a bunch of old files that I need to delete so I use: find . -mtime +3 -a \( -type f -o -type d \) But then this find command will still find files with sticky bit permission:…
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How to create a directory, where users can delete only their own files, but one user can delete anyone's files?

Consider the following setup: # two users in groups sales useradd edwin useradd santos groupadd sales usermod -aG sales edwin usermod -aG sales santos # two users in group account useradd serene useradd alex groupadd account usermod -aG account…
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How does the sticky bit help at all?

The way I understand the sticky bit on directories is that only the owner of a file within that directory can delete the file, instead of everybody with write permission. I don't get, though, where that would be actually useful. If everybody can…
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Removing a directory (that contains subdirectories) from a directory that has sticky bit

This is my setup [root@ ~]# mkdir /sticky01 [root@ ~]# chown user01:user01 /sticky01 [root@ ~]# chmod a+rwx /sticky01 [root@ ~]# chmod +t /sticky01 [root@ ~]# ls -ld /sticky01 drwxrwxrwt. 3 user01 user01 22 Apr 8 06:10 /sticky01 I have a directory…
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Not able to give write permission to other user with ACL or chmod

Anyone know why rocky can't write to /tmp/afile? Giving rocky permission as an other user with chmod o+w doesn't seem to work either I updated the acl with: setfacl -m u:rocky:rw /tmp/afile id as rocky and owner: rocky@jammy:~$ id uid=1001(rocky)…
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find command - list all directories with a set sticky bit

This doesn't work find / -type d -perm 1000 The problem is, that it matches only the exact permission (1000), but I only want to find out if the sticky bit is set or not. I don't care about the other permissions... My solution so far I feel that…
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Ubuntu user not affected by sticky bit on Ubuntu 22.04

I experience a strange behaviour in stick bit on /tmp directory and flock command. Tried with two cases: Case 1: create file with Ubuntu user, root have no access to the created file. ubuntu@:~$ touch -a /tmp/ubuntu_user_created.lck ubuntu@:~$ flock…
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rsync not setting stickybit / GID bit

Using the following rsync command, the RWX permissions are being correctly set for both files and directories but the sticky bit options are not. rsync -rtvz --partial-dir=.rsync-partial --chmod=Da+t,Dg+s,D770,F0740 --progress --stats -e 'ssh -p…
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sudoedit ignores sticky bit when checking for directory writability

sudoedit does not allow editing files when the original user has write access to one of the parent directories (as explained here). However, I'm noticing that sudoedit does not seem to take into account the sticky bit when performing this check. For…
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Why does chmod o=rwx removes sticky bit while chmod u=rwx and chmod g=rwx don't remove suid and sgid?

I'm having a problem with chmod command. I have a directory with sgid, suid and sticky bit on. If I then run chmod u=rwx {dirname} or chmod g=rwx {dirname} sgid and suid are still on. But if I run chmod o=rwx sticky bit removes. Can anyone explain…
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Sticky bit exceeds its scope of action

man chmod- …
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find files with peculiar permissions set

I'm prepping for the LPIC1 exam, strongly relying on their online material here. Can someone pls help me clarify this doubt? What is the difference among these: find ~ -perm 4000 find ~ -perm -4000 find ~ -perm /4000
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stickybits setgid not working

I have structure like: /home/reed/, user=reed, group=reed - apache-conf, user=reed, group=reed - apache-web, user=reed, group=apache, perm=0770 - www.website.com, user=reed, group=apache, perm=0770 - index.php, user=reed,…
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