I stumbled across the directory
/etc/ssl/private on Ubuntu (12.04), it has following permission:
drwx--x--- 2 root ssl-cert 4096 7月 8 2012 private/
I wonder what does this mean for group
ssl-cert? And why is it set this way?
Having execute permission on a directory is required in order to read the inodes of the files within that directory.
Within that directory is a single file,
Restricting access to this file is important because it contains the private key for any services you run that make use of SSL. The idea is that only users (which in this case would correspond to services, e.g. the