On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 10:31 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2019-12-11 10:09, Roger Heflin wrote: > > It should also be worth noting that if you want a dir to be readable > > then you must also have x set. So r-x for other would allow that. > > > > If say /home is owned by root/root and other has r-- (no x) then no > > one who is not root or root group will be able to see into the > > directories below home at all even though technically they have > > permission to them. So if you set read on a dir always also set x. > > . > > You are confirming what I just read, and did not know, while googling > permissions. I was inclined to just set permissions to 664, wondered why > they often included that "x" at the last position ... In the case of directories, 'x' means 'permission to lookup' poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
