Re: File Permissions ?

[akonstam trinity edu]

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.
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