Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:41:00 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've Created a Permission Problem which Baffles Me. Message-ID: <4327476C.3040107@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200509132059.j8DKxAhn016922@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200509132059.j8DKxAhn016922@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick wrote: >On this particular system, the /var and /var/tmp directories certainly >look like they do on other FreeBSD systems that don't have this >problem. > >Script started on Tue Sep 13 15:36:59 2005 >bash-2.05b$ cd / >bash-2.05b$ ls -ld var >drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 Aug 31 14:44 var >bash-2.05b$ ls -ld /var/tmp >drwxrwxrwT 3 root wheel 512 Nov 11 2004 /var/tmp > > Looks to me like you've taken away x bit for other (otherwise the t would be lower case). x permission on directories allows you to search that directory. Try chmod o+x /var/tmp (as root). --Alex
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