Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 05:51:17 -0000 From: "Dead Line" <dead_line@hotmail.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls: .: Permission denied (To Dan) Message-ID: <F215JhKPc99ir3wSimD00003d2a@hotmail.com>
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Hello,
Thank you Dan,
You were right, I can ls /bin and other directries that is not
in /home.
How do we do that please?
I would appreciate the help.
Marwan.
>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
>
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