Apache confusion

[Monty J. Harder]

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 09:06 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Ok, this doesn't make sense.  If I make /home world readable, anybody can
> CD to anybody else's home directory.  That ain't right.  If I don't, Apache
> can't see the user files, but users are supposed to put their files in
> /home/USER/www.  Huh?

monster: ~> ls -ld ..
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Dec 23 20:29 ..

monster: ~> cd ../jessica
bash: cd: ../jessica: Permission denied

monster: ~> ls -l ..
total 8
drwx------   10 jessica  jessica      4096 Jun 19 09:34 jessica
drwx------   15 monster  monster      4096 Jun 19 11:54 monster

It seems as if the permissions that protect the user directories from being 
cd'ed are the permissions on the directory itself.