Re: [HACKERS] mode of libs

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-02-26T04:13:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Well, the data directory itself is protected from anyone other than the postgres
> account, so it may not matter as much if an individual file is not right. My (former)
> Ingres installation had the directory protected, and then permissions of 777 on all the
> directories and files within it as I recall...
> 
> We should fix it up to match the protections on other files though...

Not true.  As long as someone has read or execute permission on a
directory, they can read/write any file in that directory they have
permission for.  What they can't do is add or delete file based on the
directory permission.


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