Robert A. Pickering Jr. ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Michael Jones ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
 
: : Unlike UNIX, in VMS a user has to have access to the entire directory
 
: This is incorrect.  UNIX does require that you have at least execute
: access to all levels of the directory tree in order to access files.
: However, it does appear that the NeXT OS does not enforce this.  Kent Covert
: could read files in my directory even though it was locked down.  However,
: under both Ultrix and AIX this is not the case.
 
Actually, I was just plain incorrect.  NeXT OS does enforce this.
 
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