Re: Directory and file permissions

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 02:00:21PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 201012081217.41820.lisi.reisz@gmail.com">[🔎] 201012081217.41820.lisi.reisz@gmail.com>, Lisi wrote:
> >My google foo seems to have deserted me completely.  Could someone take
> >pity? :-(
> >
> >Is it possible for a directory to have lower permissions than the files it
> >contains?
>
> What is lower?  Is 577 lower than 600 or vice-versa?
>

man chmod
i thought there's also a 'linux documentation project' howto on this but i can't find it... but iirc, the man page describes everything that has been discussed here thus far. also look at lsattr and chattr in modern linux (2.4 iirc).