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From: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-admin-ml@schottelius.org>
To: Jens Knoell <jens@surefoot.com>
Cc: Linux Admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Making directories non-executable?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:37:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040323223759.GC217@schottelius.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403231125.12660.jens@surefoot.com>

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Jens Knoell [Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:25:12AM -0700]:
> In an effort to tighten security, I'm trying to find out if there is any 
> solution out there to make certain world-writable directories non-executable? 

chmod a=rw dir

or

chmod a-x dir

man chmod helps.
You may also look at ACLs.

Nico

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-23 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-23 18:25 Making directories non-executable? Jens Knoell
2004-03-23 20:16 ` Glynn Clements
2004-03-23 22:20   ` Jens Knoell
2004-03-24 12:30     ` Glynn Clements
2004-03-23 22:37 ` Nico Schottelius [this message]
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2004-03-24  6:47 George  Iosif

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