New submission from Andre Nathan <andrenth@gmail.com>: Hello I'm using setuptools on a server with tight permissions; a normal user is not allowed to list the contents of certain directories, including /usr/bin, which setuptools tries to scan when searching for .egg files. Thus, running any command installed from setuptools fails with OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/bin' The following change in find_on_path(), in pkg_resources.py, makes it ignore directories which it cannot read: -if os.path.isdir(path_item): +if os.path.isdir(path_item) and os.access(path_item, os.R_OK): Do you think this could be applied? Thanks, Andre ---------- messages: 233 nosy: andrenth priority: bug status: unread title: find_on_path on systems with tight permissions _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue58> _______________________________________________