It seems I need to use sudo
to ls
directories that I own and have r/w permissions on.
If I try to ls
my media drive, I can see it, but not its sub-directory, even though I think owning that sub-directory should enable me to do so. When I try, I get this result:
me@icvr1:/home$ ls -al /media/
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 19 12:41 ..
drw-rw-rw-+ 4 me me 4096 Jan 4 12:01 innovationcommons
me@icvr1:/home$ ls -al /media/innovationcommons/
ls: cannot access '/media/innovationcommons/External_Storage': Permission denied
ls: cannot access '/media/innovationcommons/DataStorage': Permission denied
ls: cannot access '/media/innovationcommons/..': Permission denied
ls: cannot access '/media/innovationcommons/.': Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? DataStorage
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? External_Storage
me@icvr1:/home$ ls -al /media/innovationcommons/DataStorage
ls: cannot access '/media/innovationcommons/DataStorage': Permission denied
However, if I use sudo
, I get this more expected and useful result:
me@icvr1:/home$ sudo ls -al /media/innovationcommons/
[sudo] password for me:
total 16
drw-rw-rw-+ 4 me me 4096 Jan 4 12:01 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:05 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 me me 4096 Jan 3 13:35 DataStorage
drw-rw-rw- 4 me me 4096 Aug 29 11:33 External_Storage
me@icvr1:/home$ sudo ls -al /media/innovationcommons/DataStorage
total 16
drwxrwxrwx 1 me me 4096 Jan 3 13:35 .
drw-rw-rw-+ 4 me me 4096 Jan 4 12:01 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 me me 4096 Jan 2 16:08 Images
drwxrwxrwx 1 me me 496 Jan 3 13:37 Places
drwxrwxrwx 1 me me 0 Dec 12 14:53 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxrwxrwx 1 me me 4096 Dec 12 14:54 System Volume Information
Why can't I successfully ls -al /media/innovationcommons
without using sudo
, or even just ls
its sub-directories?