[PLUG] weird permission settings

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

hey all,
will you do the following and then please explain to me why this is
so?

identify an account on a system which is a member of a certain group.
let's say the account is patrick and the group is unshaven. now do the
following...

%> su
#> cd /tmp
#> mkdir testdir
#> chown root:unshaven testdir
#> chmod 0705 testdir
#> exit
%> cd /tmp
%> id
uid=101(patrick) gid=100(users) groups=500(unshaven)
%> ls -ld testdir
drwx---r-x    2 root     unshaven      4096 Feb  1 20:53 testdir
%> cd testdir
cd: permission denied: testdir

any ideas???
testdir should be world readable, but if group has --- permissions,
then even though it's world readable, any member of a group can't
chdir or ls into the/that directory...

martin

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