Permission Problem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 02:47 -0700, Bill vance wrote:
> 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.

What messages do you get, if you try to access this fishy dir with user
privileges?

$ id
$ sudo ls -ld /path/to/the/dir/the_fish_dir/

> I've tried chmod

You use chmod it in what way? Did you also use chown?