I just ran into something that surprised me.

I was trying to let one user have access to a file owned by another 
user (and in that other user's $HOME hierarchy).  I did not want to 
change the group owner of the file in this case, so I tried giving the 
file (and all directories above it) the appropriate permissions for all 
(other) -- like o+rw for the file, and o+rx for all directories above 
the file.

In this case, the parent directory of the file in question had a group 
"owner" but no permissions assigned.  The user to whom I was trying to 
give access could not get access to the file until I went back and 
assigned some group permissions to the parent directory of the file -- 
specifically g+rx.

Is that the expected behavior in LInux?

thanks,
Randy Kramer

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