File Permissions ?
Tim
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Wed Jan 11 19:39:33 UTC 2006
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?
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