read Permissions on a Directory: Example

• Directory owned by root

        $ ls -ld /tmp/explain-read/
        drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul 17 10:54 /tmp/explain-read/

• QUIZ: Who has which directory permissions?

• A text file in that directory

        $ ls -l /tmp/explain-read/
        total 0
        -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jul 17 10:54 alpha