Re: [SLUG] confused about file permissions

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 21:54:50 EDT


On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Sick Twist wrote:

> I have come to realize that I think Nautilus has a broken implementation of
> permissions because it prohibits doing what I have just learned I can do
> from the command line:
>
> jconte@kunto:~/Desktop $ ls -ld .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 jconte jconte 472 2005-10-29 21:34 .
> jconte@kunto:~/Desktop $ mkdir foo
> jconte@kunto:~/Desktop $ chmod 700 foo
> jconte@kunto:~/Desktop $ sudo chown root.root foo
> Password:
> jconte@kunto:~/Desktop $ ls -ld foo
> drwx------ 2 root root 48 2005-10-29 21:34 foo

What is Nautilus?

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