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Bug 296631

Summary: find fails with "Permission denied" if parent directory lacks 'r' permission
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jordan Russell <jr-redhatbugs2>
Component: findutilsAssignee: Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.0CC: psplicha
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0589 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jordan Russell 2007-09-19 17:28:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
If the directory one level up from the specified path does not have 'x'
permission, find fails with a "Permission denied" error.

This issue is new to RHEL5; it does NOT happen on RHEL4.5.
(Bug also appears to exist in Fedora 7.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
findutils-4.2.27-4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
# mkdir /test
# chmod 711 /test
# mkdir /test/subdir
# touch /test/subdir/file
# su - otheruser
$ find /test/subdir -name file
  
Actual results:
find: /test: Permission denied

Expected results:
/test/subdir/file
Comment 1 Jordan Russell 2007-09-20 04:16:46 UTC 
Typo: 'x' permission -> 'r' permission
Comment 2 Vitezslav Crhonek 2008-02-14 12:55:31 UTC 
Hi,

Thanks for your report.

This issue is fixed in Fedora Rawhide (findutils-4.2.32-1).

Please contact official Red Hat Support at https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
to allow correct prioritization of this issue in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 3 Vitezslav Crhonek 2008-04-15 12:36:02 UTC 
Created attachment 302443 [details]
backported patch
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2008-06-04 22:48:46 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-23 13:02:11 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0589.html