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: 1998-02-26T14:27:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > 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. > > Sure. I must be missing the point (as usual :), because my directory protections look like: Sorry, count me an idiot. I see what you mean now. The pgsql/data directory is rw-------, which makes all files underneath unreadable by anyone but the superuser. There is no problem. Sorry. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)