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Advanced Programming in

the UNIX Environment


Week 03, Segment 3: st_mode

Department of Computer Science


Stevens Institute of Technology

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

struct stat: st_mode, st_uid, st_gid

The st_mode also encodes the file access permissions (S_IRUSR, S_IWUSR,
S_IXUSR, S_IRGRP, S_IWGRP, S_IXGRP, S_IROTH, S_IWOTH, S_IXOTH). Uses of
the permissions are summarized as follows:
• To open a file, need execute permission on each directory component of the path.
• To open a file with O_RDONLY or O_RDWR, need read permission.
• To open a file with O_WRONLY or O_RDWR, need write permission.
• To use O_TRUNC, must have write permission.
• To create a new file, must have write+execute permission for the directory.
• To delete a file, need write+execute on directory, file doesn’t matter.
• To execute a file (via exec family), need execute permission.
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struct stat: st_mode, st_uid, st_gid

Which permission set to use is determined (in order listed):


1. If effective-uid == 0, grant access
2. If effective-uid == st_uid

2.1. if appropriate user permission bit is set, grant access;


2.2. else, deny access
3. If effective-gid == st_gid

3.1.if appropriate group permission bit is set, grant access


3.2. else, deny access
4. If appropriate other permission bit is set, grant access, else deny access
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struct stat: st_mode, st_uid, st_gid

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st_mode and UIDs

We've learned all about permissions and file ownership and how access decisions are
made.

We note that the order of checks is fixed and important; as a result, it's possible to
create fine-grained access controls through group membership and carefully set file
permissions.

Coming up next: using the syscalls that set the file permissions and ownerships. (Yay,
more code!)

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