[NBLUG/talk] Wierd directory.

[Troy Arnold]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:11:58PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:53:44PM -0700, Troy Arnold wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:47:55PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:
> > > I have a directory on my redhat box that I can not view even as root.
> > > 
> > > [root at xxxxx ftp]# ls -la 
> > > total 9
> > > drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         1024 Jan 16 15:16 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x   23 root     root         4096 Apr 15 15:23 ..
> > > d--x--x--x    2 root     root         1024 Nov  5  2003 bin
> > > d--x--x--x    2 root     root         1024 Nov 19  2003 etc
> > > drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Nov 19  2003 lib
> > > drwxr-sr-x    5 root     ftp          1024 Sep  9  2003 pub
> > > 
> > > I can't change teh permissions on teh directory either
> > 
> > Maybe it's been made immutable.
> > Try: 
> > # lsattr bin
> > man lsattr, chattr
> > 
> > If those are dirs for an ftp server, they *should* be execute only.
> 
> They are for an ftp server.. They should have the read bit set?  and
> lsattr returns nothing..

my mistake, the lsattr command should be run on the dir /containing/
bin,etc,lib 
I'll bet it returns something like:
----i------------ ./bin

the 'i' says it is immutable.
Hell, skip the formalities if you want:
chattr -i bin

And no, they don't need the read bit set.  The users need to run bin/ls,
not look at it.  And you can run a program just fine, even though you
can't 'see' it.  

-troy