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. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 21:45:00 up 171 days, 21:18, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.22 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
