File Permissions ?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jan 11 20:58:12 UTC 2006


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?

Tim: 
>> 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?

Paul Howarth:
> What about user "test" in group "tim"?

Same results, as I expected.

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