Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:18:17 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd |
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Harald Kirsch wrote:
> > Why is /bin/pwd (or getcwd) allowed to return an output in the following > command sequence? > > > % mkdir -p really/closed; cd really/closed; chmod 000 ..; /bin/pwd > /home1_phys/kir/sunHome/tmp/really/closed > > Harald Kirsch
Because permissions don't prevent you from reading a directory.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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