From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 12:20:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5443C37B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3AJKmJ25454; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:20:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:20:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: marwan@q8internet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls: .: Permission denied Message-ID: <20010410142048.A15176@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from "Dead Line" on Tue Apr 10 18:18:40 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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