[Kde-kiosk] URL Restrictions (Re: newbie- Library Computer running SuSE 9.2 Pro)

[Martijn Klingens]

On Sunday 10 April 2005 18:36, Barry O'Donovan wrote:
> What's the rationale of the filesystem having the read attribute for
> directories?

I actually don't know. It's needed sometimes to allow people to change to 
deeper directories. E.g. Apache refuses to serve pages if not the entire path 
up to the root has exec perms on the dir. To avoid disclosing extra 
information you thus need the distinction between exec and read.

The more common case is to have the two combined though. Windows solves this 
by having 'read & execute' in the normal GUI and the finer-grained separation 
between the two is hidden under the Advanced button. Now I don't want to 
encourage anyone to clone the Windows GUI, which is a horrid dialog, but the 
idea to have read-exec by default combined and the split options only there 
where they actually make sense is worth pursuing if you ask me.

-- 
Martijn