File Permissions ?

[Paul Howarth]

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.

A user other than the owner that is in the same group as the file won't
be able to read it, will they?

Paul.