Giving a program your permissions when it runs
HowToForge has an excellent tutorial that shows how to give a program your permissions when it runs. The tutorial demonstrates how to set SUID and SGID bits for a file. Don’t worry if you don’t know what that means. Check out the tutorial at HowToForge, it’s pretty simple.
Normally, when a program runs under Linux, it inherits the permissions of the user who is running it, thus if I run a program under my account, the program runs with the same permissions that I would have if that program were me. Thus, if I cannot open a certain file, the program I am running also cannot open the file in question.
If I set the SUID or SGID bit for a file, this causes any persons or processes that run the file to have access to system resources as though they are the owner of the file.
Giving a program your permissions when it runs - [HowToForge]
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1 opinion for Giving a program your permissions when it runs
chirag gor
Sep 21, 2008 at 10:03 pm
when i started the musicplayer and gnome and terminal then meanwhile the mp3player has paused why it has been stopped and it’s related to the suid bit and how i can removw this problem by suid bit and like change priority of the programme plz help me
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