Question

This is a annoying problem and I have no idea what is causing it. java and projects are two svn repository directories in /home/svn.

drwxrwSr-x 6 svn svn 4096 2010-10-19 19:36 java
drwxrwsr-x 6 svn svn 4096 2010-10-18 17:20 projects

They have the same permissions and files inside them have same permissions as well, which is drwxrwsr-x.

abc is a user who also a member of the svn group. I can access projects folder but on the java folder it says.

bash: cd: java/: Permission denied 

Earlier I couldn’t even access /home/svn folder through user abc, even though I been doing that for some time now

drwxrw-r-x  5 svn    svn    4096 2010-10-19 23:09 svn

I had to change permission of svn directory from drwxrw-r-x to drwxrwxr-x in order to access it as abc

Thanks

Answer 1

Your java folder has the SGID-bit set with execute permission (see the capital S in your directory listing).
The project folder does not.

Use

chmod g-s java
chmod g+x java
chmod g+s java

to make it the same as the project folder