I am user tim
, in the bob
group, and I have a file with unusual permissions:
$ whoami
tim
$ groups
lp wheel cron audio cdrom video bob tim
$ ls -l foo
--w--w-r-- 1 bob bob 10 Feb 15 18:43 foo
Since the file foo
is world readable, I should be able to read the file, but I can't.
$ cat foo
cat: foo: Permission denied
Is it possible for me to read the file as user tim
? Steve can and I'm jealous...
$ whoami
steve
$ cat foo
secret!
I apologize for the bad title. I'm having a hard time succinctly describing the problem.