From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 14:17:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA06902 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA06889 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA04503; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 15:15:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602032215.PAA04503@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: pwd To: uh@sed.cs.fsu.edu (Gang-Ryung Uh) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 15:15:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602031500.KAA14139@sed.cs.fsu.edu> from "Gang-Ryung Uh" at Feb 3, 96 10:00:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I have a strange experience recently. Since I have 2 hard drives, > I made some partition for user space on the second disk. But when > I mount that partition to /home, > > as a regular user, > > 1) > cd /home > 2) > pwd > pwd: Permission denied > > 3) > cd .. > ..> Permission denied > > But, as a super user, no such problems!! > I even check the permission of /home as a super user, > > > ls -ld . > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 30 19:14 . > > > ls -ld .. > drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Jan 29 23:38 .. > > I am very confused. Would you tell me what I am doing wrong? ls -ld / - What are the permissions on /? mount - is /home mounted? What are the permissions on the mount-point if you unmount /home, if it's mounted? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.