Permission denied for a "drw-r--r--" directory

Question

I have a log/ directory with read permission for all : `drw-r--r--` ``` paul@ns387656:/var$ ls -l ... drw-r--r-- 9 root root 4096 May 22 14:49 log ... ``` But when I want to access it with the cd command I have a "Permission denied" ``` paul@ns387656:/var$ cd log -sh: cd: log: Permission denied ``` And I don't know why... Ideas ? Thx

Accepted Answer

You need execute permission to change into a directory. Also the owner is listed first. In this case the owner is root and root has read and write permission. Group and Others have only read permission.

Try this:

```
sudo chmod a+rx log
```

This adds read/execute permission for owner, group, and others.

Permission denied for a "drw-r--r--" directory

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