[CentOS] directory permissions set to 600?
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Jul 22 01:45:23 UTC 2010
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.
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