Weird and Sudden permissions problem

[Rick Delaney]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> [root-rsR6PDGiyyg at public.gmane.org Country]# ls -lah
> total 12M
> drw-rw-rw-   3 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x  11 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 ..
> drw-rw-rw-   2 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:58 Garth Brooks
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 madison madison 4.5M Jan 23 11:58 Natalie MacMaster with 
> Cookie Rankin - The Drunken Piper.mp3
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 madison madison 4.1M Jan 23 11:58 Pam Tillis - River and 
> the Highway.mp3
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 madison madison 3.3M Jan 23 11:58 Prairie Oyster - Black 
> Eyed Susan.mp3
> 
> 
>   Notice that the ownerships are all okay? Despite that as a user I 
> can't get into the directory!

You need x permissions to be able to search a directory (or cd to it).

    chmod +x

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Rick Delaney
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