MaD dUCK on Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:57:06 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] weird permission settings


also sprach MaD dUCK (on Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:59:59PM -0500):
> any ideas???
> testdir should be world readable, but if group has --- permissions,
> then even though it's world readable, any member of a group can't
> chdir or ls into the/that directory...

gabe answered that one. the last three bits of security masks are not
"world" but "others", which means that they only apply iff a user
hasn't been covered by the earlier 6 bits...

martin

[greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net
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