Kostya and Mark answered your main question; I'll address your ps. Applications are indeed 'other' in the permissions you list below, but applications do have their own uids, so an Application's directory will be owned by its uid.
An application with the right permission I'm guessing is put into the sdcard_rw group, and thus would come in under the group permissions instead. I believe chmod command doesn't take the symbolic arguments -- you'll have to use the numeric arguments like we did back in the 1970's. I'm not sure why you were trying to remove the 'other' permissions on that file, but let's say you did ls -l on it, and the permissions were -rw-r--r--. You'd convert this to the numeric form: 644. Your o-rwx would mean 'turn off all the bits in the last digit', so you'd want chmod 640 ... I'd love to have a document on the command-line commands! You can install the busybox toolkit, and get much improved versions of many commands, such as this. I find a rooted device without busybox to be very disconcerting. Busybox puts a large number of commands in one executable to make it quite small, and then symlinks to it under each command name. It looks at the name to figure which command you're asking for. On Aug 9, 10:59 am, john brown <johnbrowngreybe...@gmail.com> wrote: > P.S. > I got a command prompt via c:\Program Files\Android-SDK\tools> adb > shell > > # ls -l /sdcard/Android/data/lms > ----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 63 2010-07-19 15:17 > mpReadAbDdx201006.txt > ----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 45211 2010-07-19 15:17 > mpTranAbDdx201006.txt > > The way I read this is that the owner's rights are ---, group is rwx, > others is r-x. I'm just guessing, the application is others? > > But I cannot get chmod to change the attributes, i.e.: > > # chmode o-rwx /sdcard/Android/data/lms/mpReadAbDdx201006.txt > Bad mode > > (I get the same file attributes when I copy file to sdcard via DDMS > File Explorer.) > > Where can I find documentation to the Android linux (?) commands? (I > mean the command line commands) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
