How can UNIX access control create compromise problems ?

Posted by Berkay on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Berkay
Published on 2010-03-14T21:10:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 21:15 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 449

Filed under:
|
|

My system administrators advice me to be careful when setting access control to files and directories. He gave me an example and i got confused, here it is: a file with protection mode 644 (octal) contained in a directory with protection mode 730. so it means:

  • File:101 100 100 (owner, group,other: r-x r-- r--)
  • Directory:111 011 000 (owner, group,other: rwx -wx ---)

How can file be compromised in this case ?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about unix

Related posts about inode