[H-GEN] 1. Public Samba share 2. apache Samba share

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Tue Aug 5 06:02:44 EDT 2003


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On 2003-08-05, Alex Delaforce wrote:

I haven't been following this thread at all, having no use for
Samba, but I was struck by this:

> Is it something to do with the directory permissions for public
> Permissions - drwxrw-rw-
> Owner - root

That is a really weird set of permissions for a directory and is
almost certainly wrong in normal use.  If users other than the
owner are to be able to search the directory, the execute bit
(aka `x' or 1) needs to be set; just having the read bit set is
not enough.

Cheers, Greg

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