On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:36:17PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > You and John are both incorrect. Read access is sufficient to get a > list of files and directories in a given directory. The execute bit on > a directory is required to access the directory's contents. If a > directory is 'rw-' for a user (other than root), the user can get a list > of its contents using 'ls'. However, since the contents are not > available, the user cannot stat() the names to determine what type of > file they are, their size, their owner/group, etc. The user will also > not be able to chdir to a sub-directory without execute access. IOW, ls will work fine, but ls -l will not. (To be specific, a plain old /bin/ls will work fine. If you have any ls options that need to read the contents of the directory, like -l or -F, it'll b0rk.) On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:20:57PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > Basically nothing non-root running will work properly on these machines. > And if everything is designed to run as root then the architect has > shown other issues. "root" is the user of last recourse on a properly > managed server. If it's an embedded server, like a home wifi router device, running everything as root isn't such a big deal. If it's a real server it's in deep trouble. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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