On 6/7/07, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:52:11 +0100 > luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I cannot access the music folder or its subfolders and files unless I > > become root (sudo su). I can then see the folders and files. This is > > the output of stat on the top level folder: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/diana# stat music > > File: `music' > > Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 > > directory Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 16122206 Links: 69 > > Access: (0664/drw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ diana) Gid: ( 0/ > > root) Access: 2007-06-07 10:26:00.000000000 +0100 > > Modify: 2007-05-22 15:42:32.000000000 +0100 > > Change: 2007-06-07 08:46:51.000000000 +0100 > > > > I've just done some playing here and found the same problem with > accessing a directory with drw-rw-r-- permissions. The problem goes > away if I add executable permissions (making the permissions 764 for > u+x). I'm not sure why you need executable permissions on a directory > to see it's contents though... > > ________________________________________________________ > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com > > The downside of being better than everyone else is that people > tend to assume you're pretentious... > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
How clumsy of me. sudo -Rf chown diana:diana music chmod -R 755 music '755' are the standard file/folder permissions on Ubuntu. It means anyone can read/access the file/folder and only the owner can write. Sorry for adding to the confusion on this thread :-) Kris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
