Linux 101: What is the SUID permission? Your email has been sent If you’re new to Linux administration, you’ve probably already started learning about file permissions. If I said “drwxrwxr-x,” you’d ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

Scripts don't work with the suid bit because when you run a script the kernel actually runs 'script_interpreter scriptfilename' so the interpreter is what's really running. There is the perl-suid ...