Matthew S. Hallacy writes: > Do you trust every single program you run to not set a file g+rw? The > issue isn't readable home directories, it's readable files, bad > umask, and naughty programs that write group read/write-able files. UNIX permissions don't work that way. If a user does not have search permission for a component of a path (i.e. the home directory), then he will not be able to access anything below it. The POSIX description for open(2) specifies that EACCES can occur when ``Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix''. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/open.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list