file permissions ... what am I missing ?
...mmm... thought I understood file permissions but I dont get this ....
web@debian:~$ cd /mnt/archive/
web@debian:/mnt/archive$ ls -al
total 52
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4096 Feb 8 23:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 2 19:37 ..
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 10:50 autoarchive
drw-r--r-- 17 root root 4096 Apr 15 18:57 debian
drw-r--r-- 6 root root 4096 Jan 14 07:28 fluxbox
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 16384 Jan 14 07:13 lost+found
drw-r--r-- 8 root root 4096 Mar 13 10:09 misc
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Feb 12 18:21 music
drw-r--r-- 3 root root 4096 Feb 21 14:29 wallpaper
drw-r--r-- 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 11:10 wget
web@debian:/mnt/archive$ cd debian/
bash: cd: debian/: Permission denied
web@debian:/mnt/archive$
...mmm...su to root
web@debian:/mnt/archive$ su
Password:
debian:/mnt/archive# ls
autoarchive debian fluxbox lost+found misc music wallpaper wget
debian:/mnt/archive# ls -al
total 52
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4096 Feb 8 23:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 2 19:37 ..
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 10:50 autoarchive
drw-r--r-- 17 root root 4096 Apr 15 18:57 debian
drw-r--r-- 6 root root 4096 Jan 14 07:28 fluxbox
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 16384 Jan 14 07:13 lost+found
drw-r--r-- 8 root root 4096 Mar 13 10:09 misc
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Feb 12 18:21 music
drw-r--r-- 3 root root 4096 Feb 21 14:29 wallpaper
drw-r--r-- 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 11:10 wget
debian:/mnt/archive# cd debian/
debian:/mnt/archive/debian# ls -al
total 68
drw-r--r-- 17 root root 4096 Apr 15 18:57 .
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4096 Feb 8 23:55 ..
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 07:27 abiword
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Feb 9 08:41 bin
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:14 browsers
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 07:25 checkinstall
drw-r--r-- 4 root root 4096 Feb 19 07:24 games
drw-r--r-- 5 root root 4096 Apr 1 19:32 gimp
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 01:30 grub
drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 17:54 java
OK what am I missing, I want to get to my debian directory, I have read
permissions but no go ?
I know this is going to be simple .... but ....
Dave
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