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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: "Kuriyama, Kent K Mr (CPF N671KK)" <KuriyaKK@cpf.navy.mil>
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Subject: Re: Weird 'permissions denied' problem
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In-Reply-To: <A567A7C3889FD2119D2600204840388C057E085C@uemspricpf3.cpf.navy.mil>; from KuriyaKK@cpf.navy.mil on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:14:46PM -1000
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On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:14:46PM -1000, Kuriyama, Kent K Mr (CPF N671KK) wrote:
> 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

How does your / look like?

[~] edwin@k7>ls  -al / | head -3
total 12093
drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel      512 Apr 24 22:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel      512 Apr 24 22:54 ..

Edwin

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