sticky bit cannot be taken off?

[jf/]

Not too sure what's happening here, but why, and what is causing this for ubuntu:

# chmod 2750 a
# ls -l
drwxr-s--- 2 j j 6 2009-01-29 18:04 a
# chmod 0750 a
drwxr-s--- 2 j j 6 2009-01-29 18:04 a


It seems like once the sticky bit is set, there's no way to remove it, except to remove the directory itself (and start all over)?

[jf/]

nobody?

[capscrew]

It works for me. I can set the sticky bit and later remove it. Not sure what your problem is.

[deadball]

try

sudo chmod g-s a

[jf/]

try

sudo chmod g-s a

woohoo yeah, that worked! was expecting '0750' to work, though. Any idea why it doesn't?

[laughing-boy]

You can set or clear the bits with symbolic modes like u+s and g-s, and you can set (but not clear) the bits with a numeric mode.