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Running Fedora 14
I log in as max
mkdir info
chmod 701 ./info
ls -l gives me
drwx --- --x max pubs info

I login as zach and run

ls -ld /home/max/info
I should get:

drwx --- --x max pubs /home/max/info

but I get permission denied

should the mode 701 on directory info allow me to list it as long as I name it specifically and use the -ld option?

Thanks for any suggestions.

The parent directory /home/max should prohibit access by others as it has 0700 access rights.


Should really be 18 or 19, not any earlier version.

If you also have execute permission on all the higher level directories, then your ls -ld command will list the /home/max/info directory. If you lack execute on /home or /home/max, then the ls command will fail, even if you have execute permission on the info directory.

Hi there,

what's the point of allowing max's group mates nothing at all, and grant "others" the right to enter the new directory, but neither read (i.e. list its contents) nor write to it? I think 701 is a very strange pattern, and it doesn't make sense to me.

Is zach a member of group pubs, too? If so, he doesn't have permission to access the directory in any way. Besides, I think he must also have the permission to enter (execute) /home/max to access another directory below that level.

No. To browse a directory (list its contents), you must have 'r' permission on it. You only gave 'x' permission, which means zach might be able to access a file inside /home/max/info directly via its name - assuming the permissions on the higher levels allow this.

I don't know what you intend by these strange things. But if max and zach should work together on a project and have shared access to a common directory, I'd rather create a group for the project, make both users a member of the group, then make the shared directory belong to this group und grant the group members all necessary rights.

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Yes! Thank you Z038 very much that was the oversight. The parent directories all need to be 701. I really appreciate your help.

You're quite welcome.