Exam XK0-005 topic 1 question 22 discussion

Actual exam question from CompTIA's XK0-005

Question #: 22
Topic #: 1

An administrator attempts to rename a file on a server but receives the following error.

The administrator then runs a few commands and obtains the following output:

Which of the following commands should the administrator run NEXT to allow the file to be renamed by any user?

A. chgrp reet files
B. chacl -R 644 files
C. chown users files
D. chmod -t files

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by Aamm033 at Oct. 21, 2022, 3:15 p.m.

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Highly Voted 1 year, 5 months ago

You can use the chmod command with the -t option to remove the sticky bit: chmod -t /path/to/directory You cannot remove a sticky bit from a file directly. The sticky bit is a property of a directory, not a file. When a sticky bit is set on a directory, it affects the behavior of file deletion within that directory. A file within a directory with a sticky bit set cannot be deleted by a user who does not have write permissions to the directory, regardless of the permissions on the file itself. Therefore, to remove a sticky bit, you need to use the path to the directory for which you want to remove the sticky bit, not a file within the directory.

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