22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
5:43 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Gordon Messmer yinyang@eburg.com wrote:
On 07/21/2010 08:30 AM, Ski Dawg wrote:
OK, my question from all of this is what is the difference between 0600 and 0700 for a directory that is owned by root?
For a directory, there's effectively no difference because the Linux kernel does lax security checking for the root user. Root will be allowed to read and write files, and access directory contents regardless of the permissions indicated on the filesystem.
Thank you for the responses to this. I was suspecting that there wasn't a difference for root owned directories, but I wanted to confirm, making sure I wasn't crazy.
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Doug
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