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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@computerstopusa.com>
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Subject: Re: file permissions
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> > Breifly you need to change the owner of the directory to root ( chown )
> > and do a chmod 600 on the directory.  
> 
> 700 would be a little more usable :)

Thanks everyone for all the replies. :) I changed the owner/group(already
knew how to do that), but did a chmod 000 dirname. I don't know what that
does, but it seemed to work. :)