Permission Problem

[A.J. Bonnema]

On 08/10/2014 10:02 PM, Bill vance wrote:
> On 8/10/14, David Kuntadi <d.kuntadi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
> Too many files to waste everyone's time and list space on,
> but they're all the same, so I'll send a short sample.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cen          mail  334003  Aug 10 01:33 cen-a9
> -rw-r--r-- 1 col           mail           0  Aug 10 01:33 col
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cre           mail  396748  Aug 10 01:33 cre
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cre           mail  378183  Aug 10 01:33 cre-a1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cs            mail           0  Aug 10 01:33 cs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root          root           0  Aug 10 01:33 dvdusr
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fap           mail  104223  Aug 10 01:33 fap
>
> I should mention that this is a fresh install of kubuntu 12.04.4.
>
> Bill
>
What are the permissions of the directory? If group/others have no 
execution rights for the directory,  they can not see files in that 
directory.

Regards, Guus.