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List:       trac
Subject:    Re: [Trac] Re: Permission denied
From:       Gary Thomas <gary () mlbassoc ! com>
Date:       2005-08-29 21:07:45
Message-ID: 1125349666.9549.8.camel () hermes
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On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 22:57 +0200, Paul Richardson wrote:
> Furthermore ...
> 
> can someone explain this?
> 
> Livia:~ plr$ sudo -u www cat /Users/plr/Documents/svn/web/format
> cat: /Users/plr/Documents/svn/web/format: Permission denied
> Livia:~ plr$ cd Documents/svn/web/
> Livia:~/Documents/svn/web plr$ sudo -u www cat format 
> 3
> 
> Livia:~ plr$ sudo -u www svnlook tree ~/Documents/svn/web/
> svnlook: Can't open file '/Users/plr/Documents/svn/web/format': 
> Permission denied
> Livia:~ plr$ cd Documents/svn/
> Livia:~/Documents/svn plr$ sudo -u www svnlook tree web
> ... tree listing follows

Most likely you don't have execute permission for other users 
along some part of the path.  In your first example, the user
'www' has to navigate the whole path which requires o+x permission
on /Users, /Users/plr, /Users/plr/Documents, etc.  In your second
example, many of those path navigations were skipped which is why
it worked.

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