File Permissions ?

[Jeff Vian]

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.