Re: permissions not honoured by /bin/pwd aka getcwd

From: buddy@dookie.net
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 13:40:41 EST


> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Harald Kirsch wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> Script started on Thu Feb 24 09:07:10 2000
> $ pwd
> /tmp
> $ mkdir foo
> $ mkdir foo/bat
> $ ls
> foo typescript
> $ ls foo/*
> $ cd foo
> $ ls
> bat
> $ cd ..
> $ ls
> foo typescript
> $ chmod 0 foo
> $ ls
> foo typescript
> $ cd foo
> bash: foo: Permission denied
> $ ls foo/*
> ls: foo/*: Permission denied

Remember, directory permissions are NOT recursive. In this example,
cd foo/bat

will still work.

you need to chmod -R if that's what you want to do :)

--buddy

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