Because if you for example make /etc permissions 700 or 711 basic things such as dns and mail do not work for that user. Gregory Nowak said the following on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 06:23:28PM -0600: > Why don't you just switch execute permissions on all dirs, preventing people say in the users group from doing a "cd" into them? > Greg > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:47:47PM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > > I've heard of a program which prevents normal users from seeing > > directory contents on the system. My understanding is that they can > > still run programs such as pine, mutt, etc even though those might > > require seeing /etc/resolv.conf but if they try to cd into any directory > > above their home dir they can't. I've looked around but can't find such > > a utility. Anyone have ideas? > > -- > > We are writing this e-mail to inform you that the mail server is down. > > Please do not call the help desk for assistance. To see the progress of > > any outage refer to your e-mail notifications. > > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- We are writing this e-mail to inform you that the mail server is down. Please do not call the help desk for assistance. To see the progress of any outage refer to your e-mail notifications. Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net
