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bug#9788: chown gets permission denied
From: |
Alan Curry |
Subject: |
bug#9788: chown gets permission denied |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:36:53 -0500 (GMT+5) |
Richard Woolley writes:
>
> When trying to change ownership of the files in a directory, I mistakenly h=
> ad the settings wrong in the command, so I got the following
> ls -l
> total 16
> drw-rw-r-- 4 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:23 doc/
> drw-rw-r-- 24 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:27 modules/
> drw-rw-r-- 3 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:23 project/
Your first problem is that you've got some directories here with read
permission but no x permission. In that situation, this happens:
> ls -l project
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? compile.conf
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? myproject.conf
> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? novas_fli.so
ls can read the directory, getting the filenames, but the lack of x
permission prevents it from getting any other information.
First chmod u+x doc modules project, then see what you get from ls -l on
them.
--
Alan Curry