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From: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, vda wrote:

> 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?

When you have a web server running with user homepages in $HOME/www or 
similar, users need to have x set for the web server to serve their pages, 
but some users may not want all other users to see what files they have. 
Those people will have --x permission for other on their $HOME.

-- 
Ciao, Pascal

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