Unknown owner,group,permissions,etc.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 12 June 2006 17:45, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Monday 12 June 2006 04:18, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> >> I believe that directories need to be executable in order to be
> >> read/traversed.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > Almost right. You must have read permissions to list the contents
> > of the directory, i.e. perform an ls <dirname>
> >
> > You need execute permissions to move into it, i.e. perform cd
> > <dirname>
>
> Thank you for the clarification.  I learned something new!  :)

You're welcome.

Soem things are not in the man pages, that is one of them. And in that 
vein: Tune into this space next week for the full inside dope on how 
primary group, effective group, supplementary groups, sq and newgrp 
and friends all manage to play nicely together!

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If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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