File Permissions ?

[Dave Mitchell]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:53:38AM +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.

$ id
uid=500(davem) gid=500(davem) groups=500(davem) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t
$ ls -l /tmp/foo
-r-----r--  1 root davem 2 Jan 10 21:32 /tmp/foo
$ cat /tmp/foo
cat: /tmp/foo: Permission denied
$


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