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.


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