Examples--Setting Special Permissions in Absolute Mode

The following example sets setuid permission on the dbprog file.

$ chmod 4555 dbprog
$ ls -l dbprog
-r-sr-xr-x   1 db     staff        12095 May  6 09:29 dbprog

The following example sets setgid permission on the dbprog2 file.

$ chmod 2551 dbprog2
$ ls -l dbprog2
-r-xr-s--x   1 db     staff       24576 May  6 09:30 dbprog2

The following example sets sticky bit permission on the pubdir directory.

$ chmod 1777 pubdir