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Re: fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!



On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> To cd into a directory, you must heve execute permission for
> that directory.  I.E. change:
> > drw-rw-rw-    6 root     audio        4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> > drw-rw-rw-    2 root     audio         16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> > drw-rw-rw-    3 root     audio        4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/
> 
> to:
> > drwxrwxrwx    6 root     audio        4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> > drw-rw-rw-    2 root     audio         16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> > drwxrwxrwx    3 root     audio        4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

yeck if you must have world writable directories you really ought to
use the sticky bit to keep people from nuking files they don't own.  

chmod 1777

drwxrwxrwt	3 root	audio	4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/

> Though if you want to enforce the read-only settings that you
> mentioned above, change it to:
> > drwxr-xr-x    6 root     audio        4.0k Mar  6 20:58 l/
> > drw-rw-rw-    2 root     audio         16k Mar  6 20:34 lost+found/
> > drwxr-xr-x    3 root     audio        4.0k Mar  6 20:58 miscmp3/

lost+found should be mode 755

> This way only root can write into those directories, while everyone
> else can browse them but not write to them.
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