Re: [tlug] Whoops... messed up home directory permissions

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 20/04/06, David Stibbe <dstibbe@example.com> wrote:

> Basically you're giving a long post to illustrate what the person before
> you already said, but maybe he should've been more specific: the x bit
> controls the access to the directory.
>
> This means, all actions that require the user to be in the
> directory,such as cd, ls, rm, cp ...etc, require the x bit to be set for it.

The problem is that the OP is new to Unix, and simply saying that the
'x' bit allows you to cd into a directory might not illustrate the
true extent of what the bit does.

Since when is providing an example doing a disservice?

-Josh