2009-10-13

Sticky Bits

4000 (the setuid bit)
Executable files with this bit set will run with effective uid set to the uid of the file owner. Directories with this bit set will force all files and sub-directories created in them to be owned by the directory owner and not by the uid of the creating process, if the underlying file system supports this feature

see chmod(2) and the suiddir option to mount(8).