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Advanced Programming in

the UNIX Environment


Week 03, Segment 4:
chmod(2) and chown(2)

Department of Computer Science


Stevens Institute of Technology

Jan Schaumann
[email protected]
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/
CS631 - Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

chmod(2), lchmod(2), fchmod(2)


#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode);


int lchmod(const char *path, mode_t mode);
int fchmod(int fd, mode_t mode);
int fchmodat(int fd, const char *path, mode_t mode, int ag);
Returns: 0 if OK, -1 on error

Changes the permission bits on the le. Must be either euid 0 or euid == st_uid.
mode can be any of the bits from our discussion of st_mode as well as:
• S_ISUID – setuid • S_IRWXU – user read, write and execute
• S_ISGID – setgid • S_IRWXG – group read, write and execute
• S_ISVTX – sticky bit (aka “saved text”) • S_IRWXO – other read, write and execute
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chown(2), lchown(2), fchown(2)


#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int chown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group);


int lchown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group);
int fchown(int fd, uid_t owner, gid_t group);
int fchownat(int fd, const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group, int ag);
Returns: 0 if OK, -1 on error

Changes st_uid and st_gid for a le. Generally requires euid 0. (Some SVR4’s let users chown
their les to anybody. POSIX allows either, depending on _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED.)
owner or group can be -1 to indicate that it should remain the same.
Non-superusers can change the st gid eld if both:
• euid == st_uid; and
• owner == st_uid and group == egid (or one of the supplementary group IDs)
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chmod(2) and chown(2) consistently follow the semantics of the other calls we've seen.

Only root and the owner of a le can change its permissions.

Only root can change the owner of a le, but the owner may change the group
ownership of a le.

Changing le permissions and ownerships has signi cant security implications.

Coming up next: default le ownership and permissions for newly created les.

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