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QuestionQ43

VerifiedSecurity Fundamentals

A company’s IT associate displays a directory listing and observes this entry:

-rwsr-x--x 2 bob sales 2047 Oct 10 09:44 sales-report

What occurs when Alice, who is on the accounting team, attempts to execute this file?

Explanation

The set-user-ID bit is set for the file owner, Bob, as shown by s in the owner's execute position. Alice has execute permission through the “other users” execute bit, and executing a set-user-ID file runs with Bob’s effective user ID.

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