On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 06:47:25PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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. > > It worked for you because you were the user (owner) and thus were > granted access by the 0404. Someone who is in the group but is not the > owner would be denied. > > Try it with a test user and you will see what I mean. > > The permissions are parsed in sequence as <user -- group -- other> and > the _first_ one hit that allows/denies access is used. > Don't be too confident. Here is question . If a file has permissions 007 can the owner read it, change it , erase it? The answer is no to the first two and yes to the last. -- ======================================================================= We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
