On 3/7/06, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to make a directory writable by one user, and readable by > another. It should be owned by the web server UID, and the group > should be the gid of my normal login user. > > %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs > drwxr-x--- 6 www pergesu 512 Feb 23 13:05 /home/pergesu/logs > > However, the www user apparently can't read/write to that dir. I gave > 'www' a real shell just to try it out: > %sudo su www > %ls -ld /home/pergesu/logs > ls: /home/pergesu/logs: Permission denied > > I don't get why it's doing Permission denied there. www has r/w/x > access to that dir. It doesn't, however, have read access to > /home/pergesu, so that's my only guess. I don't want to make > /home/pergesu readable by everyone though of course. Isn't that what > permissions are all about?
Unfortunately, if you cannot access any given directory, you cannot access any of it's children either. For anything to access /home/pergesu/logs the user must have execute permissions on /home/pergesu (not read). Jal. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
