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To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature? 
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   of "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:03:40 -0000." <01111917034005.00817@nemo> 
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:19:10 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> said:

[...]

> Do you have even a single dir on your boxes with r!=x?

Directories /dev, /lib, /bin, /etc under FTP home are --x. I'd do the same
with cgi-bin et al for WWW...

Some FTP sites (f.ex. ftp.sendmail.org) have limited distribution
prereleases under an unreadable directory (--x).

-wx is used for anonymous uploading under FTP

It certainly has its uses. If you wanted to _really_ lock down a box, you'd
start by doing the same --x game for some critical directories.
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