I've Created a Permission Problem which Baffles Me.

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Tue Sep 13 19:11:11 PDT 2005


Alex Zbyslaw writes:
>Looks to me like you've taken away x bit for other (otherwise the t 
>would be lower case).  x permission on directories allows you to search 
>that directory.
>
>Try chmod o+x /var/tmp (as root).

	Thank you!  I did and the T changed to t, fixing the
permission problems.

	If I was teaching a UNIX class, that would be a good brain
buster.


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