On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at 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. -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) ---------------------------------------- Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. -- Steve Wozniak