rs6000er <rs6000er@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> our user complained that the file list in their folder looked funny as
> the below.
>
> ls: 0653-345 ./..: Permission denied.
> total 1417568
> drwxrwxrwx 3 d_prod2 d_prod2 4096 Feb 21 14:52 .
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 163785 Jun 12 2003 bcheck
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 25764 Dec 19 2002 cclfuncs.dat
[...]
>
> but if the root user list files in same directory, the output showed up
> properly.

It would have been sufficient to post the question once.

What does root see if he/she does a 'ls -ld . ..' in the same directory?

What is the result if 'our user' does 'id'?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe