[PLUG] permissions -- ugh

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Wed Dec 4 17:12:38 UTC 2002


* Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com> [021204 06:16]:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> 
> > permissions on /home/seti is 744, and is at least that on all the
> > other files and directories below that. But I can't read a file that
> > is not in the /home/seti dir. How come?
> 
> The /home/seti directory will need need to have the execute bit set 
> for group and others, e.g.,
> 
>   chmod go+x /home/seti

In other words, 744 needs to be 755.

--Stafford




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