On 07/20/10 4:54 PM, Larry Brower wrote: > Ski Dawg wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Today, I ran across a directory in /etc/ on one of our servers whose >> permissions where set to 600 (drw-------) with root being the owner. >> The directory is for the firewall package for the server, so it is not >> something malicious. Checking some other systems, they also have this >> directory and the permissions on those servers is also 600, so it >> isn't just a messed up permissions on this one machine. >> >> What is the difference between permissions of 600 and 700 for a >> directory, that is owned by root (group root)? Is there a reason why >> some directory should be set to 600 instead of 700? > > 600 is read and write for the owner whereas 700 is read write and > execute. If there is nothing in the folder that needs to be executed > than 600 would be correct. um... on a directory, the X bit means you can LS the contents of the directory. of course, root ignores this anyways and overrides it.