RE: Why need +s chmod on files and directories?

Subject: RE: Why need +s chmod on files and directories?
From: Marc J. Miller ([email protected])
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 18:01:22 EST

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Directories, yes. Files, no.

Alex Yu wrote:

>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2000 17:13:00 -0800 (PST)
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: Why need +s chmod on files and directories?
>From: "Alex Yu" <[email protected]>
>
>>Essentially because MacOS files don't have permissions. Directories
>>do. So the g+s option makes sure that the permissions assigned
>Hmm, on my server, I have Windows users using ftp, and Mac users using
>AppleShare. Do I have to set g+s on files that ftp creates?
>Alex

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