Re: permission denied into $home

Mike wrote:

> oh my garshk! I thought 666 were good enough.... but what initially caused the
> problem (i wonder)? Would 760 work?

For the owner, I think so. If I remember correctly, you need 'x' (bit 1)
authority to read a directory's contents. 760 for a directory's
permissions doesn't make much sense (at least the 6 part doesn't). I'd
go with 750.

>
> On Saturday 25 March 2006 22:17, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
>
>>In article <20060325235347.CEVS17437.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@[172.18.180.8]>
>
> bmike101@cox.net wrote:
>
>>>>Mike could/should provide more information.
>>>

>>>root@2[home]# ls -ld / /home /home/bmike1 /home/
>>>bmike1/.bashrc
>>>drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 2006-03-25
>>>07:00 /
>>>drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 2006-02-21
>>>19:56 /home
>>>drwxrwxrwx   55 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2006-03-24
>>>22:41 /home/bmike1
>>>-rw-rw-rw-    1 bmike1   bmike1        123 2006-02-21

>>
>>The permissions of /home/bmike1 are obviously wrong.
>>
>>This is one of those rare times when the original error message
>>pointed precisely at the problem.
>>
>>-Dale


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-Eric 'shubes'

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