Subject: Re: Permissions oddity under 1.4_ALPHA
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/03/1999 11:00:45
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

# Can someone explain the following? If not, I'll send a PR. Oddities abound.
# 
# satserv1-1 /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs$ ls -l | grep programs
# drwx---r-x  3 web  web  1536 May  3 10:50 programs
# satserv1-1 /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs$ cd programs
# /bin/ksh: cd: /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs/programs - Permission denied
# satserv1-1 /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs$ whoami
# mason

What's "groups" or "id -a" have to say about all this?

# 
# With mode 0755, I can cd into there. With mode 0705, I cannot.
# 
# Eek?

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