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I am accessing a MyBook server using SSH by means of public-private keys.

I have a wierd problem where i am unable to access certain folders that i should logically have access to.

I have a directory on

/DataVolume/shares/fldr drwxrwxr-x root share

The user I am accessing the server with is a member of the group share (which has GID 1000). The same as fldr.

When I try to cd into the directory i get the error:

-sh: cd: fldr: Permission denied.

Why is this? And how do i fix it?

The sshd_config file does not limit users to home directories, but privilege seperation is on.

I can access another folder in shares, but all folders have the same access rights, so something else is at work.

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    Can you access any other sub folders of /DataVolume/shares/ how about shares itself?
    – terdon
    Feb 2, 2013 at 21:50
  • Shares itself: Yes. Other subfolders: Yes... But i don't see why. THey all have the same access mods Feb 2, 2013 at 21:50
  • I was asking in case it were a problem of the permissions of the parent folders.
    – terdon
    Feb 2, 2013 at 21:58
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    But you bring up a good point. All folders have the same access mods, but I can only access one of them. Why is this? Is there some other force at work here? Feb 2, 2013 at 21:58
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    What happens when you type ls -la@? This will show extended attributes.
    – daviewales
    Feb 9, 2013 at 10:38

2 Answers 2

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The are several reasons why you can't access that folder:

1) maybe FUSE fs is used by another user and it mounted in /DataVolume/shares/fldr, in this case noone (even root) can't access this folder.

2) some mismatch in GID/UID, look at:

stat /DataVolume/shares/fldr

, and

id user

to check this;

3) maybe this is soft link to another folder (or file), and youre user has not read permission to it.

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Did you check the execute bit on parent dirs.

exemple:

/DataVolume/shares drwxrw-rw- <- NOK
/DataVolume/shares drwxrwxrwx <- OK

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