OT: SCO Openserver 6.0 permissions question for ordinary users

[Mike Schwartz]

      Using filePro 5.7.03, I've been able to create PDF invoices,
statements and other output that my customer is very happy with.  However,
I'm running into a permissions problem on SCO Openserver 6.0 when the users
try to FTP to the server to view or download the PDFs.. 

   User "root" can use the FTP function built into Internet Explorer
versions 8 to log in via a Windows workstation to view and download the PDF
files to a Windows workstation without any problem: 

# cd /u1/images/061714
# l
total 544
-rw-rw-rw-    1 filepro  group    273465 Jun 17 16:19 8939_MOR_149552.pdf
[snipped the rest of the PDF files]

    However, when ordinary users tried to log in via FTP in Internet
explorer it worked for a while, but then they started getting a permissions
error. 

    So, using Facewin to telnet into the SCO server, I logged in as
"ordinary user" "billw", and was surprised to find out that that "billw"
cannot "cd" to the images directory.   As you can see from the example
below, "billw" can cd to /u1 and also to /u1/images. but can't cd to any of
the "date" subdirectories, like 061704.

    billw is in the group named "group" and with rw-rw-rw- permission on u1,
images and 061714, I don't understand why billw can't cd to 061714. 

    The server was patched to the recommended patching level about a year
ago.   

    This should be Unix 101 but I must be missing something simple...   Any
ideas?

Thanks!
     
Mike Schwartz

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Login:  billw
password:

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$ cd /u1/images/061714
/u1/images/061614: permission denied

$ cd /
$ l
   [snip]
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     sys            96 Dec 23  2009 u
drwxrwxrwx    6 filepro  group        8192 May 28 15:39 u1
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     sys            96 Feb  4  2010 u2

$ cd u1
$ l
total 199040
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     sys          8192 Mar 16 17:36 fonts
drwxrwxrwx   19 filepro  group        8192 Jun 19 11:19 images
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     sys            96 Dec 20  2009 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     sys         16384 Jun 19 12:07 tmp
$

$ cd images
$ l
total 96
drwxrw-rw-    2 filepro  group     8192 Jun 16 15:47 061614
drwxrw-rw-    2 filepro  group       96 Jun 17 16:19 061714
drwxrw-rw-    2 filepro  group       96 Jun 18 01:05 061814
drwxrw-rw-    2 filepro  group       96 Jun 19 01:05 061914
drwxrwxrwx    2 filepro  group     8192 Jun  4 19:54 logo

$ cd 061714
061714: permission denied

     User "root" can CD to that subdir without any problem: