Bug 103700

Summary:	chmod(1) man page does not mention root owned dirs exemption with suiddir
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Denis Eremenko <moonshade> <moonshade>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Denis Eremenko <moonshade@pnhz.kz> 2006-09-27 04:20:17 UTC


"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.

Comment 1 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer

2006-10-07 22:37:30 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

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.