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My distribution is the latest Gentoo. I have a directory called music which belongs to qdii:commun and which octal access rights are "2070", that is: all permissions are granted to the group (commun), but none to the user (qdii).

Last element: qdii belongs to commun.

qdii@ks396822 ~/commun $ chmod g+wrxs music/
qdii@ks396822 ~/commun $ cd music/
-bash: cd: music/: Permission denied

What’s happening?

EDIT:

qdii@ks396855 ~/commun $ ls -l
total 4
d---rws--- 2 qdii commun 4096 Jun 10 20:26 music
qdii@ks396855 ~/commun $ cd music/
-bash: cd: music/: Permission denied
qdii@ks396855 ~/commun $ groups qdii
wheel commun qdii
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    Post the output of the commands that prove your assumptions.
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Jun 10, 2012 at 20:00
  • @IgnacioVazquez-Abrams: here you are. I understand your request, but I have checked multiple times that I did not make a rookie mystake :)
    – qdii
    Jun 10, 2012 at 20:38

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The user permissions have higher priority than the group permissions. Otherwise, it would not be possible to create a file that only the owner can access, but the group can not.

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  • Yet, it's confusing : being the owner of that directory here, prevents me from opening it. If it had been owned by anyone else, I would be able to open it.
    – qdii
    Jun 10, 2012 at 20:31

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