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[cobalt-users] Re:Help Navigating Directories



At 3:06 PM -0500 2/21/02, cbtrussell is rumored to have typed:

> What is going on here? The directory is
> owned by the user brandon0108, why can't that user view its contents?
>
> FWIW, due to some other problems with Dreamweaver on this site, I manually
> chown'd all the contents of the web directory to user brandon0108 and also
> chmod'd all the contents to 664.

   Which, of course, answers your own question. If you're still not sure, two
words: executable bit. (If you must chmod, chmod directories to 755 instead
of 644. Unless, of course, you don't want anyone other than root to enter
them.)

         Charlie