Randy 'Lerxst' Kaelber ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: In article <1994Aug16.151411.28129@miavx1>, [log in to unmask]
: (John B Harlan) writes:
: > (useful directions deleted)
 
: I also had to add one more step, and that was to add world read and execute
: privs to my sys$login directory.
 
: $ set def sys$login
: $ cd ..
: $ set prot = (world:re) rskaelber.dir
:                         ^^^^^^^^^ replace this with your userid
 
You should follow John Harlan's 3rd step as follows (I believe you must
have missed this):
 
From miavx1!jbharlan Thu Aug 18 22:09:32 1994
:
: 3)  Type
:
:          SET FILE /PROT=(W:E) [-]<userid>.DIR
:
:     where <userid> is your userid without the <> bracket signs
 
This way, ONLY your WWW directory in your account will be readable.
You need the E (executable) flag so that other users can enter your
directory and the subdirectory WWW underneath it (in this case).
However, you do NOT need to give users R (read) privileges to your
root directory to access subdirectories beneath it, and if you don't
want people snooping around in your account at all, then follow John
Harlan's orginal step (which works fine...I just tried it).
 
Actually, you don't really need the R attribute on your WWW.DIR,
either, but that's not important since everything in there is
probably going to be public anyways.  Just follow John Harlan's
directions and it will work fine.
 
Oh...if you ever want to see what the current protections set are
on anything, you can use "DIR /PROT" (without quotes).
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Michael G. Jones                                      Miami University
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