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Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

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> If you have read permission on a directory but *not* execute permissions,
> then the only thing you can do is read the contents of that directory --
> the filenames and their inode numbers.  You cannot stat() the files,
> so you can't see who owns them or even what kind of files they are.
> Just their names.

Never found a situation where this as useful.

> If you have execute permission but *not* read permission on a directory,
> then you can access the files within the directory, but only if you
> already know their names.  You can't read the directory to get their
> names.

This OTOH is very handy, making the filename into a kind of "passwd" to
access the file's content.


        Stefan

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Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-19 17:00 +0200
  Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-19 17:10 +0200
    Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-19 17:20 +0200
      Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-05-19 18:30 +0200
    Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-19 17:20 +0200
      Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-19 17:40 +0200

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