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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-01-21 22:35:45 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-01-21 22:35:45 +0000
commita2b1a450d06db0d429e04592dccf106b4622ee74 (patch)
tree76b7c9a994ac5c19bc154af2bc6622c65eb6b038 /bin/chmod/chgrp.1
parentd559bcac1b693c5f6b35a46bf4bd732e084caa45 (diff)
paste in the fs.posix.setuid blurb from chown(1), as it's
relevant here too; ok millert
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diff --git a/bin/chmod/chgrp.1 b/bin/chmod/chgrp.1
index 1210ca71486..b31776304fc 100644
--- a/bin/chmod/chgrp.1
+++ b/bin/chmod/chgrp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: chgrp.1,v 1.15 2014/01/21 15:17:25 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: chgrp.1,v 1.16 2014/01/21 22:35:44 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993, 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -102,6 +102,17 @@ or a numeric group ID.
If a group name is also a numeric group ID, the operand is used as a
group name.
.Pp
+By default,
+.Nm
+clears the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on the file
+to prevent accidental or mischievous creation of
+set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs.
+This behaviour can be overridden by setting the
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variable
+.Va fs.posix.setuid
+to zero.
+.Pp
The user invoking
.Nm
must belong to the specified group and be the owner of the file,