From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 22:51:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f215.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4F937B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dead_line@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:51:18 -0700 Received: from 208.7.67.85 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 05:51:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [208.7.67.85] Reply-To: marwan@q8internet.net From: "Dead Line" To: dnelson@emsphone.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls: .: Permission denied (To Dan) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 05:51:17 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Apr 2001 05:51:18.0230 (UTC) FILETIME=[6D876760:01C0C24B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Thank you Dan, You were right, I can ls /bin and other directries that is not in /home. How do we do that please? I would appreciate the help. Marwan. >In the last episode (Apr 10), Dead Line said: > > Iam Using a Shell, when I go out from my Home Directry ( cd .. ) > > and do ls command the result is this, > > colorls: .: Permission denied > > > > So i cannot view anything outside my home directry. > > and ls command it works fine in my home directry. > > This is so nice. > >It's not that; it's just that the admin has removed read permission >from /home, but left execute permission on. That way you can only cd >into dubsirectories if you know the name if the subdir. Try cding to >/bin and run ls. I bet it will work. > >-- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message