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From: abc@adm.BRL.MIL (Brinton Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: search permission on directories
Keywords: root search permission
Message-ID: <24109@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Aug 90 15:01:26 GMT
References: <454@alice.marco.UUCP>
Organization: Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <454@alice.marco.UUCP> leo@marco.UUCP (Matthias Pfaller) writes:
>Yesterday I noticed, that even root does not have search permissions
>on directories with mode d---------. Today I tried it on a real unix
>box and here it is allowd. Bug or feature?

Ditto here.

Root can read such a directory on a Sun running Berkeley 4.2 Unix.

_Brint
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_Brinton Cooper		BRL - Where "Research" is our Middle Name.