directory permissions

[lawrenzo]

Hello,

can anyone tell me how this may have occured on a home directory:

d--------T 2 101185 mktukprj 96 Feb 12 14:49 dwallace.20040712:13

also we are getting an error when checking the quota for this directory

Thanks

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

There are perms on this dir.
chown 0000 xx can do this.

T presents -transitional dir

Anil

[lawrenzo]

can you explain a bit more please?

cheers

[Sundar_7]

if you execute the command

chmod 1000 against a directory, the directory will get the above mentioned permissions.

T = sticky bit set for the directory. If the sticky bit is set for the directory then even if the permissions of the directory is 777, users can only remove the files/dirs that they own. They cannot remove the files/dirs that are not owned by them.

Refer the permissions of the /tmp directory.

# ls -ld /tmp

it will have lowercase "t" - the uppercase T in ur case means the execute bit is not set for the directory.

# chmod 750 dwallace.20040712:13

[RAC_1]

d--------T 2 101185 mktukprj 96 Feb 12 14:49

d-represents it is a dir
first three dashes "---" are perms for user
next three are perms for group and last three are perms for others.

man chmod for details.

T represents that it is transtion link.

In your case there are no perms set on thid dir. No one can access this dir. This may be result of aborted copy of dir etc.

Change the perms to appropriate ones.

Anil

[lawrenzo]

thanks for your help!