Hello Chad,

Friday, November 4, 2005, 10:40:27 AM, you wrote:

CM> Kind of.  In reality, root is just another user.  Root just happens to
CM> have a lot of permissions for things.  I'd bet there's some setting
CM> somewhere that gives root universal read access, but I would have no
CM> idea where it is.

As long as root has the ability to chmod all files, root can read
anything at all, by changing the file in question's permissions.
 
-wittig
website: http://www.robertwittig.com/
weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/
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