On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 04:05:35PM +1300, Shams wrote: > Why does /root need r-x for group, is it because root user belongs to root > group? It may be a case of sensible defaults, but there could be some other reason for which I'm unaware. > /home/tim has by default: > drwx------ I vaguely recall seeing a question about that during the install process, asking if I wanted to enable that configuration for home directories. I checked, and I can't find what produced that question. > Are these permissions mandated by POSIX? I don't know. It could be something regarding LSB compliance. Sorry I couldn't help more. -- Brian Clark