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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what |
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Sun, 11 Oct 1998 07:05:53 -0400 (EDT) |
> Someone has already commented that this allows access to known filenames.
> Most default home directory setups are 755, from the days when Unix was
> used by cooperating workgroups. It is possible that this has been done
> to give a system daemon access to one of your . files, without giving
> directory listing permission to every one. It is probably better to
> have 755 on the home directory and reserve 700 for secure subdirectories.
some people consider having the subdirectory's names known to be a problem
also (VMS restricts that information, making it correspond more/less to the
0711 permissions on the current directory).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
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http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, David Combs, 1998/10/10
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/11
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/11
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, dickey, 1998/10/11
- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what,
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- Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what, Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/11