Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:20:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: marwan@q8internet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls: .: Permission denied Message-ID: <20010410142048.A15176@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <F195lbpH71yEXUIEAOe00000ba7@hotmail.com>; from "Dead Line" on Tue Apr 10 18:18:40 GMT 2001 References: <F195lbpH71yEXUIEAOe00000ba7@hotmail.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 10), Dead Line said: > Iam Using a Shell, when I go out from my Home Directry ( cd .. ) > and do ls command the result is this, > colorls: .: Permission denied > > So i cannot view anything outside my home directry. > and ls command it works fine in my home directry. > This is so nice. It's not that; it's just that the admin has removed read permission from /home, but left execute permission on. That way you can only cd into dubsirectories if you know the name if the subdir. Try cding to /bin and run ls. I bet it will work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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