File Permissions ?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 11 20:28:56 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 06:09 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Jeff Vian:
> >>> To make it truly _world_ readable it needs to be mode 444.
>
> Tim:
> >> 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.
>
> Paul Howarth:
> > A user other than the owner that is in the same group as the file won't
> > be able to read it, will they?
>
> Argh, double negative logic, and it's 6am...
>
> If I create a test file as user and group "tim", then make it mode 404
>
> e.g. -r-----r-- 1 tim tim 5 Jan 12 06:04 permissions.text
>
> User "test" in group "test" can read it (I've tested this).
>
> Are you saying that they should or shouldn't be able to do so?
What about user "test" in group "tim"?
Paul.
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