If changing the owner of file with chown command, suid and sgid are missing from file mode.

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Issue

  • If changing the owner of file with chown command, suid and sgid are missing from file mode.

    # ls -l testfile   -rwxrwsrwx 1 testusr1 testusr1  0 Nov 27 18:40 testfile

# chown testusr2:testgrp testfile

# ls -l testfile   -rwxrwxrwx 1 testusr2 testgrp  0 Nov 27 18:40 testfile

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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