On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:10:00PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:

[...]
> I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a
> permission denied if they do an ls.  Other permissions protect the files in
> the homedir.  The homedir should have execute-only perms.  But, taking a
> quick look, it seems that is not the case.  Hmmmm.
> 
> That does kind of suck.  msec used to do execute-only perms on homedirs... I
> wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do.

My mistake.  I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was
read/execute perms.  Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate homedir
perms.

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