On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 02:00:21PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[email protected]>, Lisi wrote:
> >My google foo seems to have deserted me completely.  Could someone take
> >pity? :-(
> >
> >Is it possible for a directory to have lower permissions than the files it
> >contains?
> 
> What is lower?  Is 577 lower than 600 or vice-versa?
> 

Well 4 is read, 2 is write, and 1 is execute. 
577 = r-xrwxrwx
600 = rw-------

600 would have lower permissions.


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