----- Original Message ----
> From: Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 9:17:28 PM
> Subject: Re: directory permissions set to 600?
>
> >
> > um... on a directory, the X bit means you can LS the contents of the
> > directory. of course, root ignores this anyways and overrides it.
>
> Note that execute access is only needed on a directory if you want to
> list its contents (eg ls). If you know ahead of time the name of the
> file in the directory you seek to access, you don't need execute access
> on the directory. Not having execute access on a directory keeps
> 'noisy' people from discovering the contents of the directory. This is
> a not unreasonably security setting.
Nope. for dirs, 'w' means "you can create and delete files" (because creating
and deleting files means inserting and removing entries in the dir), "r" means
"you can list the dir" (which makes sense, since what 'ls' does is reading the
dir entries. 'x' means "you can cd into the directory)
Fer
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