Permissions for Directories and Subdirectories - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

clancymf · #1 (**permalink**) 08-07-2006

Is it possible to have a directory owned (by root) with permissions drwx------
and then have a sub directory of rwxrwxrwx.

I know that this may be soo simple but I had no luck googling it.

Thanks for your help

nathan · #2 (**permalink**) 08-07-2006

It's very possible to have directories setup like this.

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# ls -ld junk/
drwx------  3 root root 4096 Aug  7 17:37 junk/
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l junk/
total 4
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4096 Aug  7 17:37 junk1
[root@localhost ~]#

But no, I don't think any other user could write to the directory with 777 permissions if it was below the directory owned by root with 700 permissions.

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