[luau] Limiting Access to Single File

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Fri Jan 9 11:20:00 PST 2004


On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:47:03PM -1000, Blake Vance wrote:
> Seems my ~9a reply never made it. Yes, that is the situation.
> There is a case in the archives where someone used a recursive
> chmod as root, which due to the circumstances, necessitated a
> reinstall. I was also thinking of doing a chmod -R but would
> sure like to avoid that scenario.

There was more than a simple chmod going on in that thread.

Just chmod from the right directory and you should be safe. Chmod
does not follow symlinks by default.

-Vince



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