[Tfug] Bizarre permissions problem

[Ryan Cresawn]

Jim,

Do you have "View -> Show Hidden Files" checked when you run nautilus as root?

Ryan


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:34 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:29:10PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
>> >   I'm upgrading laptops and moved /home/jim to the new machine.
>> >   I now have a situation where /home/jim/.gvfs is owned by "jim" but
>> > with
>> >   access rights only - and root user has no permissions.
>> >   So in trying to make sure I own all of /home/jim, a command like:
>> >   jim at critter:/home$ sudo chown -R jim /home/jim
>> >   chown: cannot access `/home/jim/.gvfs': Permission denied
>> >   If I look at permissions for that directory in Nautilus, I see that I
>> >   have read-only access.  If I do "sudo nautilus" to look at the
>> >   situation as root, I can't even see /home/jim/.gvfs
>> >   And that apparently is blocking me from resetting permissions on my
>> >   home directory on a global, recursive basis.
>> >   How do I gain back write-access to .gvfs?
>> >   Jim
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I've got the same directory on my laptop, though I'm not currently having
>> any
>> issues with it.
>>
>> One thing to be aware of is that this is actually a FUSE mount point.  If
>> you
>> run ps, you'll probably see something running like:
>>   /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/jim/.gvfs
>>
>> If that's running, it may be affecting your ability to change permissions
>> on
>> the directory.  Maybe try it when you're not logged into X?
>
>
>
> Answering Jude first:
>
> ---
> jim at critter:~$ sudo chmod -R 666 /home/jim/.gvfs && sudo chown -R jim.jim
> /home/jim/.gvfs
> [sudo] password for jim:
> chmod: cannot access `/home/jim/.gvfs': Permission denied
> ---
>
> I could try without X yeah but...I don't think that's it.
>
> See, what scares me is that the directory isn't visible at all when I "sudo
> nautilus".  That tells me that the root account (which is there in Ubuntu
> but buried) can't see the directory at all.  Root has no permissions to it
> for READ let alone write.
>
> So...if root can't read or write, and I can only read, how in God's nephew's
> name can I set myself up as read/write access?
>
> Somehow I think this catch-22 ain't going away just because I'm at a
> terminal line...?
>
> Jim
>
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