On Thursday 30 October 2008, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> Don't forget world executable permissions on directories. > >Gene Heskett: >> Ahh, so it should have been 0655, fixed I hope. > >Don't do that to files, you don't want to make all your webservable >files executable, unless they need it (e.g. CGI scripts, or SHTML pages >where you're using the X bit hack to tell the server to parse them for >SSI, rather than using the filename suffix). > >That's where doing something like "chmod o+X" (that's a deliberate >capital X), rather than "chmod 644" was useful. It'd set executable >bits where it was needed (to directories), and not where it was not (not >on files, unless they were already executable). > Neat trick, thanks. I learned something today. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <SlayR> i just bought MS Office 2000 for only $20!!! <Knghtbrd> you got ripped off ;> <SlayR> i know ;) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
