Permission Problem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 17:14 -0700, Bill vance wrote:
> 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

Please trim the quotes. Nobody needs the history of all messages, but we
need the complete output, IOW the command you run + the result of the
command.

Why don't you run   $ id   ?     Or at least run   $ groups !