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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:27:37 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        Bharat Mediratta <bharat@menalto.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: user account gone awry
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002152323320.66165-100000@sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <38AA32EA.F46A5F66@nwlink.com>

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:

> The permissions of /usr/home are dr--r--r-- root wheel.  How does one go
> about changing permissions on a directory anyhow?

That could well be your problem :-)  Directories need the execute (x) bit
for regular users to fetch directory contents.

man chmod

If you don't like reading:

chmod 755 /usr/home

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