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Directory read permission setting does not work

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Expert Contributor

I use chmod to give others the read permission on the home/maria_dev directory. However, the user hive still cannot read the directory.

[maria_dev@sandbox-hdp ~]$ ls -ld
drwx---r-- 1 maria_dev maria_dev 4096 Mar  5 05:35 .
[maria_dev@sandbox-hdp ~]$ sudo su hive
[hive@sandbox-hdp maria_dev]$ ls
ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied


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Expert Contributor

You must provide read and execute (r-x) permissions to others.


Try this

$ chmod 705 /home/maria_dev
$ sudo su hive

$ ls -l /home/maria_dev

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Master Mentor

@Haijin Li

I think there is a problem with your command the - (hyphen) is missing can you copy and paste the below

$ sudo su - hive 

Please revert

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Expert Contributor

@Geoffrey Shelton Okot

My intention is to use "su hive", not "su - hive".

Below is the resource showing the difference.

https://www.tecmint.com/difference-between-su-and-su-commands-in-linux/

Thanks.

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Expert Contributor

You must provide read and execute (r-x) permissions to others.


Try this

$ chmod 705 /home/maria_dev
$ sudo su hive

$ ls -l /home/maria_dev

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Expert Contributor

@Gulshad Ansari

Thanks. You are right. The execute permission is required for entering the directory.