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

Barry A. Warsaw barry at digicool.com
Sat Apr 28 00:01:58 CEST 2001


>>>>> "PB" == Pug Bainter <pug at pug.net> writes:

    >> 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---).

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

Shouldn't be necessary, but it probably can't hurt.

-Barry




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