- Original message - Hey Jared It's not the sticky bit, it's the SE... -------------- Yeah, I know. Just a bad habit I guess,as the 2 are commonly confused. Thanks for pointing it out, so we can avoid perpetuating the inaccuracy. :) Sent from Gmail for mobile On 7/1/08, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Jared > > It's not the sticky bit, it's the SETUID bit. > > But SETUID on a file, and not a directory, without the execute bit, has no > effect. > > So "why" is a good question. > > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>>> >>> I hit SEND just a bit too soon. >>> >>> >> Gotta stop this stream of consciousness thing. :) >> >> Resetting the privs on the password file to 640 while the database is up, >> and doing a remote logon as SYSDBA will cause the sticky bit to again >> be set. >> >> >> -- >> Jared Still >> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist >> > > > > -- > ========================= > > Stefan P Knecht > Senior Consultant > Infrastructure Managed Services > > Trivadis AG > Europa-Strasse 5 > CH-8152 Glattbrugg > > Phone +41-44-808 70 20 > Fax +41-808 70 12 > Mobile +41-79-571 36 27 > stefan.knecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.trivadis.com > > OCP 9i/10g SCSA SCNA > ========================= > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l