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Re: File and directory permissions



On 07/03/18 13:56, epsilon491@tutanota.com wrote:
On terminal A,
chown root:root /opt/experiment/
chmod 700 /opt/experiment
On terminal B,
whoami #aristo
touch bbb
# OK bbb is created in /opt/experiment/
cd /opt/experiment/
# Gives permission denied
ls -la
# Gives correct listing
pwd
# Gives /opt/experiment

I cannot reproduce this behaviour on a local ext4 filesystem. As soon as access is removed, a nonprivileged user cannot cd to or list contents of the test directory.

Do you have any network filesystems involved in this test?

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand


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