Reading files in one username From Another

[John J. Boyer]

Mike,

That's right. I was worried about security. It works with the mode of the 
directory set to 755.

John


On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Mike Gorse wrote:

> Not exactly; 777 includes write permission which you don't need to read 
> files and might not want.  You need read permission to enter the directory 
> and execute/search permission to list files in it (if you have read but 
> not execute, then you can't list files, but you can still read them if you 
> know their name and have read permission on the file).
> 
> -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
> 
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Guy Abandon. wrote:
> 
> > You need to set 777 on their host directory too surely.
> >
> 
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