Tim: >> Owner permissions are one thing. But setting something as world >> readable ought to be treated just as you intended. Paul Howarth wrote: > You could take this argument further: any file with "world readable" > permissions should automatically be readable via the local web server > (an entry in httpd.conf should be made to allow it). After all, it's > world readable. Does that make sense? Yes, and that was precisely the point I was arguing. I'd made a file's permissions so that it was available to everybody, so it should be... -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.