I've been trying to understand permissions on directories, but am having
trouble with the write permission.
As I understand it, read permission (r--r--r--) on a directory allows
the contents to be listed, write (-w--w--w-) allows files to be
added/deleted, and execute (--x--x--x) allows
Scribbling feverishly on May 23, bof managed to emit:
[...]
But when I changed the directory permissions to -w--w--w-, I could not
add a new file or delete any of the existing files, getting a
permission denied message. This is not as I understand it: I should be
able to do this.
On Thu, 23 May 2002 06:32:47 -0600
begin bof [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth:
I've been trying to understand permissions on directories, but am having
trouble with the write permission.
As I understand it, read permission (r--r--r--) on a directory allows
the contents to be listed,
Thanx. Your explanation makes sense.
So the execute permission must be used with the read or write permission
when dealing with a directory if the user plans on allowing read or
write access to it.
But no book that I have read, and for that matter, the man/info page
explains permissions like
