From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Jun  2  0:14:58 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from uemsmwscpf1.cpf.navy.mil (rnoc3.cpf.navy.mil [199.124.15.38])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7DB837B40E
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun,  2 Jun 2002 00:14:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: FROM uemsconnsp1.cpf.navy.mil BY uemsmwscpf1.cpf.navy.mil ; Sat Jun 01 21:14:48 2002 -1000
Received: by u661-serv-1-host-257.cpf.navy.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
	id <K4B333HR>; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 21:14:48 -1000
Message-ID: <A567A7C3889FD2119D2600204840388C057E085C@uemspricpf3.cpf.navy.mil>
From: "Kuriyama, Kent K Mr (CPF N671KK)" <KuriyaKK@cpf.navy.mil>
To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Weird 'permissions denied' problem
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 21:14:46 -1000 
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

I am running FBSD 4.6 RC.  I have this weird problem in which a non-root
user gets a "Permission denied" error when executing 'ls -la' while in the
'/usr' directory.  As root I can do:

	pswmon1# cd /usr
	pswmon1# ls -la
	total 47
	drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel   512 May  4 07:45 .
	drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel  1024 Jun  1 18:12 ..   <<< Looks OK
	drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   512 Jun 15  2001 X11R6

	. . . rest deleted

As a non-root user I get:

	pswmon1: {136} cd /usr
	pswmon1: {137} ls -la
	ls: ..: Permission denied       <<< Why this message?
	total 46
	drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel   512 May  4 07:45 .
	drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   512 Jun 15  2001 X11R6

	. . . rest deleted

Similarly when the non-root user does:

	pswmon1: {138} ls -la /usr/..
	ls: /usr/..: Permission denied

The permission's on '..' look OK to me but all non-root users get the same
"Permission denied" message.  Can someone please tell me what I'm doing
wrong?  Thanks.

Kent Kuriyama


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message