Permission problem with FTP

[aangel]

Hi, I'm setting up FTP on 8.04 and am having trouble with permissions.
Using either vsftp or sftp, I can't cd into or list the contents of a directory used to hold a website.

The folder permissions are:

drwxrw-rw- 15 www-data www-data 4096 2009-09-15 14:17 davinci

Here are the relevant users:

us-adminpg:x:1000:33:us-adminpg,,,:/home/us-adminpg:/bin/bash
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh


Groups for us-adminpg:

us-adminpg@sf-davinci:/var/www$ id
uid=1000(us-adminpg) gid=1000(us-adminpg) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29( audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109 (lpadmin),115(admin),124(sambashare),1000(us-adminpg)

Steps:
1. Log in at us-adminpg.
2. cd /var/www/davinci
3. Receive "Can't change directory"

I thought I understood Linux permissions, it seems that I don't. Does anyone see what's missing?

[imhotep59]

Your directory www-data should have access permission for groups and users. So it should look like that : drwxrwxrwx

For a directory 'x' means that you have access to its contents (for a file 'x' means that you can execute this file, i.e a script)

(Hope i was clear)

[aangel]

Thank you! That was exactly what I was missing. I was trying to be parsimonious with permissions and had forgotten the role of x.