unix quirks (chmod 000 dir)

[Thomas M. Breuel]

> have permissions is "Permission denied" instead of "no such file or
> directory".  In fact, while this may be clearer to the user, it falls in the
> same general category as not using "Incorrect password" or "Incorrect
> username" for failed logins.  You never want to tell a potential intruder or
> unauthorized user any information which can be used to infer the existence
> or nonexistence of a protected object.

That's hardly an argument. A simple 'ls -l' will reveal the whole truth
to the 'intruder'. I suspect that someone was lazy when writing the code
and inferred from an error return code from 'chdir' that the target does
not exist.

							Thomas.