Permission Problem

[Bill vance]

On 8/10/14, A.J. Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Oops, here ya go.....

drwxrwxrwx  2 root        users       20480 Aug 10 02:18 mail

and above that:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      15  Aug  8 18:55 mail -> /var/spool/mail
       and,
drw-rw-rw- 15 root root   4096 Aug 10 01:39 spool

Bill