Can't us ls command

Hey guys,

I’m a new linux user and learning ubuntu CLI. I’m trying to use ‘ls’ command to test the user & groups things.

so I have main user ‘beekay’ and other 2 new ones as mentioned in the text below. both can use the ls for /home/username directories howver beekay can’t
please help. below are the groups, ownerships for the folders. only problem with user beekay is that it can’t ls into /home/felipe.

beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/yogi_v/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ su - felipe 
Password: 
felipe@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/yogi_v/
felipe@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/beekay/
Desktop    Downloads  notes.txt  Public  Templates
Documents  Music      Pictures   snap    Videos
felipe@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ logout
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/yogi_v/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls
Desktop    Downloads  notes.txt  Public  Templates
Documents  Music      Pictures   snap    Videos
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/
beekay  felipe  yogi_v
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/felipe/
ls: cannot open directory '/home/felipe/': Permission denied
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls -ld /home/felipe/
drwxr-x--- 2 root student 4096 jaan  24 20:50 /home/felipe/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ 
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls -ld /home/felipe/
drwxr-x--- 2 root student 4096 jaan  24 20:50 /home/felipe/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls -ld /home/yogi_v/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root student 4096 jaan  24 20:53 /home/yogi_v/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls -ld /home/beekay/
drwxr-xr-x 17 beekay beekay 4096 jaan  24 02:00 /home/beekay/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ id beekay 
uid=1000(beekay) gid=1000(beekay) groups=1000(beekay),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),120(lpadmin),131(lxd),132(sambashare),1001(student)
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ id felipe 
uid=1001(felipe) gid=1002(felipe) groups=1002(felipe),1001(student)
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ id yogi_v 
uid=1002(yogi_v) gid=1003(yogi_v) groups=1003(yogi_v),1001(student)
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ su - yogi_v 
Password: 
yogi_v@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/felipe/
yogi_v@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/beekay/
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  notes.txt  Pictures  Public  snap  Templates  Videos
yogi_v@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ logout
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ su - felipe 
Password: 
felipe@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/yogi_v/
felipe@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/beekay/
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  notes.txt  Pictures  Public  snap  Templates  Videos
felipe@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ logout
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/yogi_v/
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$ ls /home/felipe/
ls: cannot open directory '/home/felipe/': Permission denied
beekay@beekay-Ubuntu-20:~$

This looks like a technical support request.

This site is for the co-ordination of the Ubuntu project(s), and other non-support matters.

For Ubuntu Support options, please have a look at https://community.ubuntu.com/t/finding-help/709

@ian-weisser

Sounds like user beekay wasn’t fully a member of group student at the time. Try logging out and in again, and/or reboot. Then as user beekay run:

groups

to verify the system currently has that account in the student group.