Hi :) On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:12 AM, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi List :) > > So, I have a folder1, its owner is user1 who has r+w on the folder. > User2 is the group owner who only has read access (when I say user2, I > mean the group called user2, because when you make a new user the OS > can make them their own group). You can see these permissions below: > > [user2 at host test]$ ls -l > drw-r----- 3 user1 user2 28 Nov 2 16:17 folder1 > > How ever user2 can not 'cd' into this directory, and gets the > following out put form 'ls -l folder1' > > [user2 at host test]$ ls -l folder1/ > total 0 > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? sub-folder > > And the sub-folder name is written in white text flashing on a red > background. So, it seems to me that there is some permissions problems > here. What permissions are required on the group settings to allow a > group user to browser folder1 and its sub folders and read the files > in side if it isn't 'r' ? > > **Note: I have used sudo to replicate permissions through the directy structure: > > [user2 at host test]$ sudo ls -l folder1/ > drw-r----- 2 user1 user2 4096 Jan 24 06:49 sub-folder Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: chmod 0750 /directory And see what happens. HTH Rafa