My mistake. I misread the orginial message. It was referring to the
/home/USER directory, not the /home/USER/public_html directory.
If you set /home/USER to 701, and /home/USER/public_html to 755, then
everything is works great and things stay more secure than having
/home/USER 755.
Double Doh!
Rob
> >>>>> "RL" == Robert Landrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>RL> Under Linux, 'x' does mean execute... from the chmod manpage
>
>RL> The letters `rwxXstugo' select the new permissions for the
>RL> affected users: read (r), write (w), execute (or access
>RL> for directories) (x), execute only if the file is a direc-
>
>But it is a directory, so it means "access". If you know the file
>name, you can access it.
>
>You just need to ensure that you don't need to read the directory
>itself, if you don't want "r" permissions.
Robert L. Landrum
Senior Programmer
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