SUMMARY : Help with restoring user directories

From: Eulogio Apelin, Jr. <eulogio_at_progress.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:26:09 -1000

Thanks to Richard A. Muirden.

It's pretty simple and it seems everyone know this except me :).

The solution was that I need to change the parent directory permissions
to drwx--x--x or even drwxr-xr-x

Here's part of the follow up message by Richard A. Muirden.
Thanks again.

now back to creating those directories argg...

--Eulogio

> > My directory tree looks like this:
> >
> > /users/home/
> >
> > and here are the permissions
> > 2 drwx------ 99 root system 2048 Jan 10 19:29 home

> check that /users and /users/home each have perms like
>
> drwx--x--x
>
> this is your problem, when users login the permissions mean that the
> users cannot actually "see" their home directory because the tree above
> denies them search permission (x).
>
> try that I am sure it will work :)
Received on Sat Jan 11 1997 - 08:32:53 NZDT

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