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From: Jahilliya <jahilliya@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A question on permissions
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On 3/7/06, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to make a directory writable by one user, and readable by
> another.  It should be owned by the web server UID, and the group
> should be the gid of my normal login user.
>
> %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs
> drwxr-x---  6 www  pergesu  512 Feb 23 13:05 /home/pergesu/logs
>
> However, the www user apparently can't read/write to that dir.  I gave
> 'www' a real shell just to try it out:
> %sudo su www
> %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs
> ls: /home/pergesu/logs: Permission denied
>
> I don't get why it's doing Permission denied there.  www has r/w/x
> access to that dir.  It doesn't, however, have read access to
> /home/pergesu, so that's my only guess.  I don't want to make
> /home/pergesu readable by everyone though of course.  Isn't that what
> permissions are all about?


Unfortunately, if you cannot access any given directory, you cannot access
any of it's children either.

For anything to access /home/pergesu/logs the user must have execute
permissions on /home/pergesu (not read).

Jal.