Permission Problem

[Bill vance]

On 8/10/14, David Kuntadi <d.kuntadi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Bill vance <faptagon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Howdy folks;
>>
>> I've got a really nasty permission problem in my incomming
>> email directory.
>>
>> As root, I can read, write, rename, or delete whatever files
>> are there.  Users, however, cannot even use ls, cd to it, or
>> do anything else, when they used to be able to do all the
>> stuff I mentioned above for root.  None of the email progs
>> work for them.  I can see the file listings there, but the
>> users can't.
>>
>> I've tried chmod, setfacl, mc, and even a script called, "permz",
>> but to no avail.  I did finally manage to remove the, "sticky bit",
>> but still. nothing works.
>>
>> Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Can you post the output of "sudo ls -l" of the said directory?
>
> DK

Too many files to waste everyone's time and list space on,
but they're all the same, so I'll send a short sample.

-rw-r--r-- 1 cen          mail  334003  Aug 10 01:33 cen-a9
-rw-r--r-- 1 col           mail           0  Aug 10 01:33 col
-rw-r--r-- 1 cre           mail  396748  Aug 10 01:33 cre
-rw-r--r-- 1 cre           mail  378183  Aug 10 01:33 cre-a1
-rw-r--r-- 1 cs            mail           0  Aug 10 01:33 cs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root          root           0  Aug 10 01:33 dvdusr
-rw-r--r-- 1 fap           mail  104223  Aug 10 01:33 fap

I should mention that this is a fresh install of kubuntu 12.04.4.

Bill