On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:12:45AM -0500, David Phillips wrote: > UNIX permissions don't work that way. If a user does not have search > permission for a component of a path (i.e. the home directory), then he will > not be able to access anything below it. [snip] Where did I mention $HOME? Most bad programs happily write all kinds of things to /tmp (ignoring personal $TMP directories) with bad permissions, usually leading to a file hanging out in /tmp that's group readable and or writable. It's only worse whem $HOME has poor permissions due to say, $HOME/public_html, where $HOME is a+x so the apache user can traverse into it. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list