Bug 63906

Summary: chmod o=u not working as expected
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael Redinger <michael.redinger>
Component: fileutilsAssignee: wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.3   
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Michael Redinger 2002-04-21 13:35:01 UTC 
chmod g=u does not work as expected. The write privilege is removed. 
This not very logical and differs from other Unix platforms (I tried Irix, 
Solaris and AIX). 
(I think this was done for security reasons. But this is not Windows. I want 
to shoot myself in the foot! :) 
 
> touch xxx 
> chmod 700 xxx   
> ls -l xxx 
-rwx------    1 user   user          0 Apr 21 15:24 xxx 
> chmod g=u xxx 
> ls -l xxx 
-rwxrwx---    1 user   use          0 Apr 21 15:24 xxx 
> chmod o=u xxx 
> ls -l xxx 
-rwxrwxr-x    1 user   user          0 Apr 21 15:24 xxx
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-08-29 23:08:05 UTC 
Agreed, changed in 4.1.9-*