Why does a directory need execute permissions?
Theo Van Dinter-2 wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:44:31AM -0800, Andrew Rosolino wrote:
Mar 8 14:42:32 penguin spamd[15553]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded
Mar 8 14:42:32 penguin spamd[15553]: spamd: still running as root: user
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Phil Barnett wrote:
On Thursday 08 March 2007 19:46, Andrew Rosolino wrote:
Why does a directory need execute permissions?
Because you can't use it and you can't move into it unless it does.
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0800, Andrew Rosolino wrote:
Why does a directory need execute permissions?
For directories, the x bit makes it traversable. That means if
/foo/ has permissions drw-rw-rw-, then you can read (and write) the
directory but you can't get to any of any of the
