My fault.. sorry about that. I tried to look into every corner of this to
see if my setup was doing this.. but as you can see I missed it =)
Wayne
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 12:10:20PM +0200, Olaf Titz wrote:
> > A dir of mode 664 (drw-rw-r--) can be 'listed' with shell file completion.
>
> It can be listed with "ls" too, on every filesystem. (Just tested on
> ext2.) Plain /bin/ls without any options will simply list it, while
> shell-builtin or -F or -l etc. will give a lot of complaints about
> permission denied when trying to stat() each file in the directory,
> which is disallowed because of the missing x flag.
>
> > user (it isn't a user to user security issue) but is a bug.
>
> It is no bug. Read permission on a directory means exactly that: being
> able to read the directory, which is listing the file names and inode
> numbers in it.
>
> olaf
>
>
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