Too restrictive permissions?

[Love]

Tino Schwarze <tino.schwarze at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:

> Hi there,
> it looks like ARLA is a bit too restrictive. I've got a directory here
> where I only have "li" rights and it does not let me see file sizes etc:

Are you sure that your first ls isn't an alias (or LS_OPTIONS are set) to
be something like ``ls -F''.

You have the have the Read bit set to be able to stat files in a
directory. Just the `List Insert' bits doesn't allow you to stat. See below
for examples.

Love

OSF/1 - transarc afs 3.5

: anchor ; ls
foo
: anchor ; fs la
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
  system:administrators rlidwka
  system:anyuser li
: anchor ; ls -l
./foo: No permission
total 0
: anchor ; fs sysname
Current sysname is 'alpha_dux40d'

Linux2.2 - arla 0.31pre

: hummel ; fs la
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
  system:administrators rlidwka
  system:anyuser li
: hummel ; 
: hummel ; ls -l
ls: foo: Permission denied
total 0
: hummel ; fs sysname
Current sysname is 'i386_linux6'