Too restrictive permissions?

[Magnus Ahltorp]

> > Are you sure that your first ls isn't an alias (or LS_OPTIONS are set) to
> > be something like ``ls -F''.
> This is not the case:
> tisc at fata-856 $ type ls
> ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'
> tisc at fata-857 $

The option --color=auto will stat all the files in the directory, just
like -F, and you will need read permission in the directory to do
that.

/Magnus