From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 19:31:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA76216A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 19:31:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D3D43D7B for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 19:31:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lewiz@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: from xeon.compsoc.man.ac.uk ([192.84.78.1] helo=noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DVwvH-000BVh-Jm; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:31:11 +0100 Received: from noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j4BJVB2V094750; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:31:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4BJVBvY094749; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:31:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:31:11 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050511193111.GA94356@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20050511165506.GC10213@asu.edu> <428242D7.6040103@mac.com> <20050511174702.GA23222@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <42824FFA.4080603@mac.com> <20050511185620.GA91019@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <428259DC.9050802@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <428259DC.9050802@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-UoM: Scanned by the University Mail System. See http://www.mcc.ac.uk/cos/email/scanning for details. cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user owned groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:31:12 -0000 On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:15:40PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If you "mkdir private && chmod 700 private", any files created under > private will be safely[1] hidden away from anyone else but you, regardless > of their permissions or what your umask is. Ah, okay. A slightly bad example. How about 0711 (now a home directory, say /home/lewiz). I would like to have a public_html directory that is generally accessible. Since /home/lewiz is now executable is it not possible for somebody to do, say, cat /home/lewiz/.cshrc? They know the file is there (but can't use ls to see it) so can access it. Sorry for all these questions ;) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:lewiz@fajita.org | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-