Permission Problem

[David Kuntadi]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Bill vance <faptagon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy folks;
>
> I've got a really nasty permission problem in my incomming
> email directory.
>
> As root, I can read, write, rename, or delete whatever files
> are there.  Users, however, cannot even use ls, cd to it, or
> do anything else, when they used to be able to do all the
> stuff I mentioned above for root.  None of the email progs
> work for them.  I can see the file listings there, but the
> users can't.
>
> I've tried chmod, setfacl, mc, and even a script called, "permz",
> but to no avail.  I did finally manage to remove the, "sticky bit",
> but still. nothing works.
>
> Anyone know how to fix this?

Can you post the output of "sudo ls -l" of the said directory?

DK