Unknown owner,group,permissions,etc.

[Albert Wagner]

Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Albert Wagner wrote:
>> I have a partition of common data, meant to be shared by multiple 
>> Linux installations.  The directories and files in that hierarchy 
>> have root specified as owner/group, but read permission is granted to 
>> all.   I set up in my Ubuntu 6.06 user directory a link pointing to 
>> that common partition.  However, Ubuntu 6.06, while logged in as user 
>> shows the subdirectories of that link as unknown documents with 
>> owner,group,permissions, etc. all labeled as "Unknown".  Those same 
>> dirs and files display properly when logged in as root.
>>
>> Why does the Ubuntu 6.06 file manager obfuscate those file 
>> attributes, blocking access to subdirectories and files for everyone 
>> but root?
>>
>>
> I believe that directories need to be executable in order to be 
> read/traversed.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You are absolutely right.  Thank you, Matt.