Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> If you have read permission on a directory but *not* execute permissions,
> then the only thing you can do is read the contents of that directory --
> the filenames and their inode numbers.  You cannot stat() the files,
> so you can't see who owns them or even what kind of files they are.
> Just their names.

Never found a situation where this as useful.

> If you have execute permission but *not* read permission on a directory,
> then you can access the files within the directory, but only if you
> already know their names.  You can't read the directory to get their
> names.

This OTOH is very handy, making the filename into a kind of "passwd" to
access the file's content.


        Stefan