Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:31:11 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user owned groups Message-ID: <20050511193111.GA94356@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <428259DC.9050802@mac.com> 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>
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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 |-
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