[Zope] Re: fsimport and permissions - CORXN

Paul Jackson pj@sam.engr.sgi.com
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:50:12 -0800 (PST)


Wade writes:
|> Uh, no, I think. chown root /fred, chmod 700 /fred, chmod 711 
|> /fred/barney. Then anybody can get a listing of barney, but ...

Well - darn if you aren't right.  Only the
immediate parent directory of the item to
be opened/listed matters (so far as execture
permissions), not the grandparents and up.

Seems strange to me -- but seems you're right.

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