Subj : Re: Proper Permissions
To   : comp.os.linux
From : daniel kaplan
Date : Thu Dec 23 2004 09:23 pm

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrncsmu2i.dbi.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...

> These permissions are very strange - and probably quite unsafe. I can't
> imagine any circumstance where this should be permitted, as it is a
> security nightmare in the making.  What on earth are you trying to do?
>
my train of thought was this...a user on my system wants to post photo's of
him/herself.  so in the temp directory, from a web browser (i should have
stated that) that user goes to a form, which using my perl script, deposits
the phot into a folder that can only be written to.  but not read.

once i approve that photo, i move it to the nontemp directory, where it is
read only and can be seen by any webbrowser...

hope that better explains it

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