On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:00:19AM +0300, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> > > Remember, directory permissions are NOT recursive. In this example,
> > > cd foo/bat
> >
> > > will still work.
> >
> > Of course it will not.
> >
> > > you need to chmod -R if that's what you want to do :)
> >
> > It depends from what you REALLY want to do :-) If you want to cd in foo/bat
> > you need eXecute permissions for foo and bat. If you want ls foo/bat then
> > Read permissions for bat are mandatory but foo can have only eXecute
> > permissions. 0 means "no permissions at all".
>
> -R means Recursive, not read. ;)
>
Exactly :-) It you DO NOT need recursive change here:
-- cut --
[khim@dell khim]$ mkdir -p foo/bar
[khim@dell khim]$ chmod 0 foo
[khim@dell khim]$ LC_ALL=C ls foo/bar
ls: foo/bar: Permission denied
-- cut --
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