[Zope] Re: fsimport and permissions - CORXN

Wade Leftwich wade@okaynetwork.com
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:34:10 -0500


> |> I should have said that fred must be world-executable
> 
> That's just Unix-style permissions, no?  Can't expect to
> access "/fred/barney" if you don't have execute perms on
> "/fred".
> 
Uh, no, I think. chown root /fred, chmod 700 /fred, chmod 711 
/fred/barney. Then anybody can get a listing of barney, but only 
root can see what's in fred. And if I su nobody and run python, 
os.listdir('/fred/barney') works but os.listdir('/fred') gets 'Permission 
Denied'.

-- Wade