On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:18:17AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Strange answer. What is `chmod a-r some/directory' good for if not to
forbid reading a directory?
Harald Kirsch
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