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Hello,

running AIX 6.1

Code:

# ls -la /home/user1
drwxrwxrwx    8 user1   staff          4096 Apr 19 2011  .
drwxr-xr-x    8 bin      bin            256 Feb 08 2011  .. 
drwx---r-x    2 user1   staff           256 Apr 13 2011  dir1

# su - user2
$ cd /home/user1
$ ls dir1
ls: dir1: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.
$

So: dir1 access is allowed for others, but slill no go! If we change dir1 owner to root:system(all perms stays), user2 is allowed to list dir1.
This is not happening on Linux.

How to explain this behavior ?

thanks
Vilius

It's not such a mystery. user2 does not have permission to "read" or list ("execute") dir1. The directory is owned by user1. If user2 wasn't a member of the staff group, or the directory belonged to another group. It would be fine.

It's generally not usual to give "other" more permission that the "group"!

As it's not an AIX-specific question, I have moved the thread from the AIX forum.