From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263956AbTLEHu0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 02:50:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263965AbTLEHu0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 02:50:26 -0500 Received: from k-kdom.nishanet.com ([65.125.12.2]:52749 "EHLO mail2k.k-kdom.nishanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263956AbTLEHuS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 02:50:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD03CD9.8020103@nishanet.com> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 03:07:53 -0500 From: Bob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: The x Bit Problem References: <16333.14692.61778.304155@pc7.dolda2000.com> <3FCD47C4.50500@ninja.dynup.net> <3FCE39B8.20307@namesys.com> <16334.15412.686909.927196@laputa.namesys.com> <1070580817.8344.140.camel@arabia.home.lan> <3FD00086.90607@ninja.dynup.net> <3FD01679.3040007@mrs.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FD01679.3040007@mrs.umn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grant Miner wrote: > An interesting thing I discovered is that Windows simply ignores the > 'x' bit (I should say the Windows equivalent of the 'x' bit, called > "traverse folder / execute file"), but there is a policy setting that > overrides this attribute. > > I know users get tripped up on this a lot in Unix, like when they > don't understand why the webserver can't read their public_html > directory. It might be a good option for Linux. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Windows doesn't just ignore it. When I move files from win to linux all the x bits are turned on so txt and bz2 and jpg files are marked executable. That's annoying and a security risk. -Bob