File Permissions ?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jan 10 21:34:21 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:53 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:39 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Mode 004 is interpreted as "readable by everyone except owner or
> > group" (they are explicitly denied).
> >
> > To make it truly _world_ readable it needs to be mode 444.
>
> Are you sure? I'd have thought that 404 would be sufficient, if the
> reasons offered were true. A quick test proved it worked for me.
A user other than the owner that is in the same group as the file won't
be able to read it, will they?
Paul.
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