From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
To: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua,
James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:15:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF93E36.5040603@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111191647.KAA36330@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
>
>
>>I know. I'd like to hear anybody who have a directory with r!=x
>>on purpose (and quite curious on that purpose). UNIX gugus, anybody?
>>
>
>It's used to hide files in anonymous FTP for for one. It prevents you from
>retrieving files that you don't know the name of. Yes, a brute force attempt
>to open MAY work to find the unknown file, it will take a long time, and you
>are most likely to be detected. The anonymous FTP use is usually in an incoming
>directory - the files are put there from remote individuals, and are hidden
>(unless someone is a good guesser/or a poor name chosen) until the
>administrator examines/moves them.
>
I use it for more than just ftp. I chmod 710 ~ and have ~ in the
web/email groups. It stops prying eyes unless they know what the
filename is.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-19 16:22 x bit for dirs: misfeature? vda
2001-11-19 14:36 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 16:58 ` vda
2001-11-19 15:04 ` Tim Waugh
2001-11-19 15:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-19 16:00 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 17:43 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-11-19 18:24 ` vda
2001-11-19 16:44 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-19 17:24 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 19:39 ` vda
2001-11-19 19:07 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-20 13:03 ` vda
2001-11-19 21:01 ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-19 19:21 ` vda
2001-11-19 18:14 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-20 11:20 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 12:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 15:08 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 17:18 ` Mike Castle
2001-11-20 17:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 12:58 ` vda
2001-11-19 16:47 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-11-19 17:15 ` David Ford [this message]
2001-11-19 17:37 ` Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-19 18:42 ` J Sloan
2001-11-19 14:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-19 17:03 ` vda
2001-11-19 15:07 ` Shaya Potter
2001-11-19 15:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-19 15:19 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-19 15:36 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-11-19 16:19 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-19 22:36 ` Lionel Bouton
2001-11-19 15:12 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-19 17:41 ` vda
2001-11-20 0:38 ` Albert D. Cahalan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-20 16:05 Thomas Hood
2001-11-21 10:34 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 23:00 ` Mike Fedyk
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