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[Michael Hernandez]

Directories need x permissions in order to be traversed. That's the
difference.

--Mike H


On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 11:08 -0700, Néstor wrote:
> People,
> 
> I have a directory /home/vlieu set to 754 permission and inside that
> directory I have a
> file with permission of 744.
> drwxr-xr--  4 vlieu  www   4096 Jun  8 10:19 /home/vlieu
> -rwxr--r-- 1 vlieu vlieu 1023 Jun  8 10:19 /home/vlieu/bid.csv
> 
> 
> When accessing the bid.csv file  using a php program the function
> is_readable()
> fails.  I guess because the apache server runs the php file as user
> 'nobody'.
> 
> If I make the directory 755 (drwxr-xr-x) user nobody can read the
> bid.csv file but if I make
> the permissions 754 (drwxr-xr--) user nobody can not read the file.
> WHY?
> In a 754 permission all users still have read permissions...what am I
> missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nestor
> 
> 
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