How to Change Special File Permissions in Absolute Mode

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Before You Begin

If you are not the owner of the file or directory, you must be assigned the Object Access Management rights profile. To change a file that is a public object, you must assume the root role.

For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

Change special permissions in absolute mode.
```
% chmod nnnn filename
```
nnnn

Specifies the octal values that change the permissions on the file or directory. The leftmost octal value sets the special permissions on the file. For the list of valid octal values for special permissions, see Figure 6, Table 6, Setting Special File Permissions in Absolute Mode.

filename

Specifies the file or directory.

Note - When you use the chmod command to change the file group permissions on a file with ACL entries, both the file group permissions and the ACL mask are changed to the new permissions. Be aware that the new ACL mask permissions can change the permissions for additional users and groups who have ACL entries on the file. Use the ls -v command to make sure that the appropriate permissions are set for all ACL entries. For more information, see the ls(1) man page.
Verify that the permissions of the file have changed.
```
% ls -l filename
```

Example 5 Setting Special File Permissions in Absolute Mode

In the following example, the administrator sets the 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

In the following example, the administrator sets the 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

In the following example, the administrator sets the sticky bit on the public_dir directory.

# chmod 1777 public_dir
# ls -ld public_dir
drwxrwxrwt   2 jdoe   staff          512 May 15 15:27 public_dir