Re: HELP NEEDED!

Posted in 1994

Jonathan Leffler — 10 Jun 1994 11:23:09 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>From: scottm@robadome.com (Scott Miller) >Subject: HELP NEEDED! >Date: 9 Jun 1994 21:06:11 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.7134> > >I am using version 4.0, and here is the situation > >the database is called "cdb", and it contains about 50 tables whose owner >is "root". the "cdb" resides in a directory called /usr/scottm/db (that's >where "cdb.dbs" directory is). > >each of these sublevels (i.e. scottm, db, cdb.dbs, has rw access for scottm and >fellow group members. i.e. -rw-rw---), and scottm is a member of group "DMS" You need x (search) permission on directories to be able to access the files in that directory, regardless of the permissions on the files themselves. Unless of course you are root. You can demo that by doing what I just did: cd mkdir junk cd junk cp /etc/passwd wotsit cat wotsit chmod -x . cat wotsit # Fails, as does ls, etc. cd chmod +x junk cat junk/wotsit Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>