Re: Bug#398793: [Adduser-devel] Bug#398793: adduser: Non system wide readable (home) directories should not be 751
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Adduser choses 751, which is wrong IMO, as the directories are still
> readable, they're just not listable.
The directories aren't readable either; their contents may be, but you
can't see what the contents are.
> ~/public_html (probably) won't work with 751, but that's the choice
> and problem of the administrator that choses no.
$ mkdir testing; echo 'hi' > testing/hello; chmod 0664 testing/hello; sudo chown root:root -R testing; sudo chmod 0751 testing;
$ cat testing/hello
hi
$ ls testing
ls: testing: Permission denied
$ sudo chmod 750 testing;
$ cat testing/hello
cat: testing/hello: Permission denied
Any questions?
Don Armstrong
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