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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why is it denying me permission? Post 302309813 by robsonde on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 01:43:56 AM
Old 04-23-2009
access permissions take a different meaning for directories. Here's what they mean:

• Read determines if a user can view the directory's contents, i.e. do ls in it.
• Write determines if a user can create new files or delete file in the directory. (Note here that this essentially means that a user with write access to a directory can delete files in the directory even if he/she doesn't have write permissions for the file! So be careful with this.)
• eXecute determines if the user can cd into the directory.
To be safe you should keep R and X together on directories.


in your case you have no "X" and so cant CD into the directory.
 

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delete directory(1m)													      delete directory(1m)

NAME
delete directory - Deletes a directory SYNOPSIS
cdscp delete directory directory-name ARGUMENTS
The full name of the directory. DESCRIPTION
The delete directory command deletes a directory. The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers. The master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell. Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas. Privilege Required You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory. The server principal needs administer permission to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the directory you intend to delete. NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE. EXAMPLE
The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: create directory(1m), delete replica(1m), list directory(1m), set directory(1m), set directory to skulk(1m), show directory(1m) delete directory(1m)
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