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Re: file permissions ... what am I missing ?



Hi!

On Sat Apr 26, 2003 at 03:59:42PM +0100, Dave Selby wrote:
> ...mmm... thought I understood file permissions but I dont get this ....
> 
> web@debian:/mnt/archive$ ls -al
[...]
> drw-r--r--   17 root     root         4096 Apr 15 18:57 debian
[...]
> web@debian:/mnt/archive$ cd debian/
> bash: cd: debian/: Permission denied
[...]
> OK what am I missing, I want to get to my debian directory, I have read 
> permissions but no go ?

Directories need execute rights to search them.
# chmod +x /mnt/archive/debian

so long
Thomas

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