Problem

You want to run a command in a hosted server but you don’t have su permissions. There are directories that have different owners/permissions, so you would like to see them.

Solution

Use the tree command and save the output in a file if you have many directories:

tree -pufid /home/directory_to_check > /home/user/permissions.txt

taken from the answer here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/82374