[KLUG Members] permissions query

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 19:40 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 19:30 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > I've got a directory which is owned by root but a member of group users.
> > > 'eric' is a member of users. The directory has permissions 770. As I
> > > understand it, this means I should be able to read, write and execute
> > > the directory. 
> > 
> > Nope, it means you can read, write and _search_ the directory.
> > ('x' means something different for a directory than it does for a file)
> > 
> > > But it won't let me, 
> > 
> > It won't let you do WHAT?  Execute it?  
> > You can't execute a _directory_ no matter the permissions.
> > 
> > > claiming I do not have the necessary permissions. 
> 
> It won't let me do anything. I click on the directory name in the file
> manager and get a message saying something like: You cannot access this
> directory. You do not have sufficient permission. So it won't even let
> me look at what's in that directory. When permissions are changed to 775
> I can open the directory and see what's in it.  (Then I have to deal
> with permissions for the subdirectories and files, but that's the same
> story over again.)

Or, from the terminal (logged in as eric having set www back to 770):

[eric at sonyc ~]$ cd /var/www
bash: cd: /var/www: Permission denied



> > > 
> > > When I change permissions to 775 I can get access to the directory. 
> > 
> > "Access"?  What do you mean by that?
> > 
> > > Is
> > > there something else necessary other than being a member of the group
> > > that has rwx permission?
> > 
> > Insufficient data ... 
> > 
> >  - BS
> > 
> > 
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