| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
| Cc: | vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] mode of libs |
| Date: | 1998-02-26 04:13:18 |
| Message-ID: | 199802260413.XAA04538@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Well, the data directory itself is protected from anyone other than the postgres
> account, so it may not matter as much if an individual file is not right. My (former)
> Ingres installation had the directory protected, and then permissions of 777 on all the
> directories and files within it as I recall...
>
> We should fix it up to match the protections on other files though...
Not true. As long as someone has read or execute permission on a
directory, they can read/write any file in that directory they have
permission for. What they can't do is add or delete file based on the
directory permission.
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