Tim here. Okay, those awk commands should have had "$1" instead of "$2" in them (on my local machine there's an extra column before the permission information). But the below was the information I was hunting: drwx--x--x /home/chime/ drwxr-xr-x /home/chime/dance/ That breaks down to d (both are directories) r (your user can read both directories) w (your user can write both directories) x (your user can get a directory listing of both directories) r/- (others in your group can read your ~/dance but not ~ directory) - (users in your group may not write in either directory) x (users in your group can get a directory listing of both directories) r/- (anybody can read your ~/dance but not ~ directory) - (nobody may write in either directory) x (anybody can get a directory listing of both directories) This suggests that your home directory is *not* world-readable (good) but that your ~/dance/ directory *is* world-readable (to anybody that knows the path). If you can FTP files *to* your local machine *from* your Shellworld subdirectories but not your Shellworld home directory, this aligns with what I see here that the FTP server is running as an "ftp" user. However if you can FTP files *from* your local machine *to* your Shellworld subdirectory but not your Shellworld home directory, then it's something weirder and it's likely a Shellworld configuration issue. Either way, I'd work to transition to sftp/scp/rsync which should let you access files in your home directory and has the other benefits I mentioned previously. -tim On December 31, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > OK Tim, I ran your updated command without an opening dollar-sign, > and here's what we got > ls -dlF $HOME $HOME/dance > drwx--x--x 73 chime chime 1257472 Dec 31 11:03 /home/chime/ > drwxr-xr-x 6 chime chime 16384 Nov 19 13:54 /home/chime/dance/ > Back again live: Not sure which of these you were wondering about? > Whether I can ncftp items within Shellworld, or did you want me to > try plain ftp to see if results are similar? > Chime > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list