Re: [Lxr-general] apache (httpd) on f8 vs. fc6 running LXR

[Jan-Benedict G. <jb...@lu...>]

On Sun, 2008-02-24 20:04:27 -0500, Gene Smith <gd...@gm...> wrote:
[...]
> I created a user/group "test" and within test account I was unable to 
> cat files or list files in /home/me/lxr-file (set to 755) unless I 
> changed /home/me to 705 so permission seemed to be inherited for this 
> simple case (unless I am missing something here).
> 
> By the way, thanks for your excellent work on LXR. I use it constantly!

This is standard Unix behaviour: You can open any file with proper
priviliges (knowing its filename beforehand), but to open a directory
(needed for reading the filenames within), you need a complete chain
of e'x'ecure rights for all directories back to / .

MfG, JBG

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