Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/20/05 21:34 CST:

> No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a 
> system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as 
> the public_html directory has 755 permissions, everything will work 
> fine. The 0700 on the home direcory imply that no other user can 
> determine whether a given file or folder is present in this users' home 
> directory without naming the file explicitly. Note that the other user 
> can still read any file in the person's home directory, provided they 
> know it's there, and the file itself is not read protected. This was 
> another issue on the system that I mentioned earlier.

This is simply not true on a standard Linux Operating System.

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Randy

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