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Re: 'S' permissions



Rob VanFleet wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:34:04AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > Why would that exist on a directory one just untarred?
> Ugh, never mind about the above, I wasn't thinking.
>
> Any clues as to why I would not be able to cd into the directory though?

You need the 'x' bit set to cd into (or even list the contents of) a directory.

> > I noticed this
> > right after I untarred a tar.gz and was subsequently unable to cd into
> > it, for why I don't know.  Here is the full line:
> >
> > drw-r-Sr--    5 rvf      rvf          4096 Dec  5 20:10 apg-1.1.6b/
> >
> > rvf@shaitan:~$ cd apg-1.1.6b
> > bash: cd: apg-1.1.6b: Permission denied
> >
> > Why would it do this?
> >
> > -Rob

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