On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:42:42 -0800 Dale Snell <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:04:45 -0800 >John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is very interesting. Indeed, all the files in ~/ on my Jaunty >> disk are 1000:1000, and everything in ~/ on my new Fedora disk are >> 500:500. > >Ah, yes. This has bit me once or twice, but since I'm pretty much a >Fedora guy, I'd forgotten it. Happily, you've gotten the problem >fixed. > >> A more interesting question is why a few of the files on the Jaunty >> disk are -rw-------, while most are -rw-r--r---. All the files in ~/ >> on the Jaunty disk were placed there by me, not operating as root. >> For example, the three files that I cited at the start of this thread >> are PDF files that I downloaded from the web page for the Applied >> Linguistics Department at PSU over the course of a couple of years. I >> am the one who downloaded them, not root. And there are many more >> such files in ~/ on the Jaunty disk that are also -rw-------. Why? > >Perhaps you used a different application to download those files? I have never used anything but Firefox in all the time I have used Linux. The period was over a couple years, so there may have been different versions of Firefox, however. >Other than that, I have no idea. In any event, having a file with >permissions of -rw------- doesn't mean that root downloaded the >file. It just means that only the file owner can read or write it. My >own preference for most files is to make them -rw-r-----. Since there >are no other users on my system, who cares if my files aren't world >readable? Closing off group permissions, as Jaunty seems to have done, >just makes the files a bit more secure, is all. Honestly, I wouldn't >worry about it. The weird part is that it is only about one file out of a dozen. A lot of them are PDFs, but the PDFs include files that I created myself and files that I downloaded, yet other PDFs (that I created with the same applications at the same time) were -rw-r--r--. Just to show how illogical this is, two were .prn files created within a half hour of each other from Adobe Reader on Windows 2000 running in Virtualbox. One was -rw------- and the other was -rw -r--r--. WTH? What was Jaunty thinking? Well, since root-Thunar copied the files to my new folder and chown happily made the new Fedora-me the owner, the problem is resolved. All that remains is curiosity about how this mess was created in the first place. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
