From: Douglas E. Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu)
Date: 05/15/92 

From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
Subject: Re: 0.96 bugs?
Date: Sat, 16 May 1992 04:49:44 GMT

In article <1992May15.112711.26671@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:
>If things are readable, youcan always execute them.

Actually only root can execute everything it can read (which is, of course,
everything. :-) Mortal users need execute permission to execute.