linux permissions

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I learned something new about linux permissions. As long as the immediate parent directory is user writable you can write to it, even if that parent directory lives in a non user-writable directory.

For example:

/usr/                # drwxr-xr-x root:root
  /share/            # drwxr-xr-x root:root
    /nas_folder      # drwxr-xr-x na:na    <-free to read and and write by na

All these years I've assumed you needed writeable parents all the way down. This changes how I would organize my web service directories.

Maybe when my sbc explodes and I have to rebuild everything I'll organize things better.

posted by na on March 27, 2024 09:46