[wellylug] ubuntu access problem

[Grant McLean]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 22:49 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> For reference an editted list of mine is as follows:
> 
> cliffp at bumblebee:~$ ls -l /
> total 164
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2007-12-02 10:59 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root     4096 2008-02-14 22:03 boot
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       11 2006-07-31 06:47 cdrom -> media/cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x  14 root   root    14000 2008-02-21 12:51 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 157 root   root     8192 2008-02-21 22:12 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root   root     4096 2007-04-16 18:32 home
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2006-05-31 12:49 initrd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       29 2007-12-13 21:14 initrd.img -> 
> boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-xen
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       33 2007-12-02 11:35 initrd.img.old -> 
> boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root   root     8192 2007-12-10 08:46 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root     4096 2007-12-02 10:55 lib32
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root        3 2006-07-31 06:47 lib64 -> lib
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    49152 2006-07-31 06:46 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root   root     4096 2008-02-21 12:50 media
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root   root     4096 2007-12-22 15:08 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2006-05-31 12:49 opt
> dr-xr-xr-x 163 root   root        0 2008-02-22 01:50 proc
> drwxr-xr-x  24 root   root     4096 2008-02-21 09:33 root
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     8192 2007-12-13 21:29 sbin
> drwxrwx---  22 root   plugdev  4096 1970-01-01 12:00 share
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2006-05-31 12:49 srv
> drwxr-xr-x  13 root   root        0 2008-02-22 01:50 sys
> drwxrwxrwt  17 root   root     8192 2008-02-21 22:23 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root   root     4096 2007-04-25 22:00 usr
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root   root     4096 2007-12-02 11:04 var
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       26 2007-12-13 21:14 vmlinuz -> 
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       30 2007-12-02 11:35 vmlinuz.old -> 
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic

Also, in addition to the permissions of directories *in* the root, the
permissions of the root directory itself might be of interest:

$ ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-01-28 08:49 /

If that didn't match yours, you could fix it with:

sudo chmod 755 /

Cheers
Grant