Re: [PLUG] Question on *RWX authorities to files and folders

I'm not exacly sure what you are asking but a folder needs the executable bit to descend into it. Thus in most web hosting environments folder permissions are set to 755. If the executable bit is not set to the folder for the user they can't descend into it regardless of rw permissions.

Cheers,

Michael

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM, <jvoris@axs2000.net> wrote:

On the IBM box I work on, a homegrown custom API does not return a users
authority to a file or folder, but rather - - we make an inquiry if the
user has a specific authority to the object.

So before we place a file into a folder, we ask if the file exists in the
folder, than follow that with the inquiry of Do you have authority ? ,
say, *RWX to the folder.

My question is simple.
Isn't there more than one check that must be made ?
( I think I need to make the check three different times )

. . to replace a file, doesn't a user need either *X or *RW or *RWX ?
. . to add a file to a folder, doesn't a user need either *X or *RW or
*RWX ?

( This is on System i with iOS v7.1 .aka. AS400 )
It is OPENSYS standards .aka. PASE , a UNIX port

- John Voris
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