Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:13:56 +0300 (MSK) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd |
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:00:19AM +0300, Khimenko Victor wrote: > > > > Remember, directory permissions are NOT recursive. In this example, > > > cd foo/bat > > > > > will still work. > > > > Of course it will not. > > > > > you need to chmod -R if that's what you want to do :) > > > > It depends from what you REALLY want to do :-) If you want to cd in foo/bat > > you need eXecute permissions for foo and bat. If you want ls foo/bat then > > Read permissions for bat are mandatory but foo can have only eXecute > > permissions. 0 means "no permissions at all". > > -R means Recursive, not read. ;) > Exactly :-) It you DO NOT need recursive change here: -- cut -- [khim@dell khim]$ mkdir -p foo/bar [khim@dell khim]$ chmod 0 foo [khim@dell khim]$ LC_ALL=C ls foo/bar ls: foo/bar: Permission denied -- cut --
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