In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Michael Jones) writes: > 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. Are you sure? We were successful in accessing a file that was in a directory we didn't have access to. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)