[Mailman-Users] Re: Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

Pug Bainter pug at pug.net
Fri Apr 27 23:41:27 CEST 2001


Barry A. Warsaw (barry at digicool.com) said something that sounded like:
> That's because the world execute bit is still on for that subdir, so
> they can cd into and look around to their hearts content.  Just go
> ahead and turn that bit off (i.e. make the perms drwxrws---).

The other problem is that the files under it are readable by other. You
should be able to do a 'chmod -R o-r' on the directory to get rid of
that.

Ciao,

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