I'm going to make the leap and mark this bug as invalid. I hope it's not
premature...let me explain.
First, I created the following 'test' directories and files under my
home directory:
[drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test
|-- [drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_a
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_b
| `-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_c
|-- [drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_a
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_b
| `-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_c
`-- [drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb
|-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_a
|-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_b
`-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_c
I then completed the following steps:
1) Open up Nautilus (non-gksudo)
2) Right click on the the apple directory and choose properties --
Permissions (tab)
3) Change the Others/File Access from --- to None
4) Click Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files - This MUST be done right after
changing the permission setting to None. Do not click close first!!!
Now you will see that the permissions to the files under apple are now
changed. The default read permission has been removed.
[drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test
|-- [drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple
| |-- [-rw-r- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_a
| |-- [-rw-r- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_b
| `-- [-rw-r- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_c
|-- [drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_a
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_b
| `-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_c
`-- [drwxr-xr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb
|-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_a
|-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_b
`-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_c
Here's one more example.
1) Right click on the the permissions_test directory and choose properties
-- Permissions (tab)
2) Change the Group/Folder Access from Access Files to Create and delete
files
3) Click Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files - This does NOT need to be done
at the same time. You can click close and re-open the properties window and
click Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files. Folder access settings seem to be
retained whereas the file access settings are not.
Now here are the results. As you can see all the sub-directories now
have read/write/execute for the group properties where before they had
just read/execute access.
[drwxrwxr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test
|-- [drwxrwxr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple
| |-- [-rw-r- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_a
| |-- [-rw-r- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_b
| `-- [-rw-r- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/apple/seed_c
|-- [drwxrwxr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_a
| |-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_b
| `-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/grape/vine_c
`-- [drwxrwxr-x johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb
|-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_a
|-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_b
`-- [-rw-r--r-- johndoe johndoe ] ./permissions_test/plumb/pit_c
My last test, group ownership, failed. This bums me out as this is what
I was hoping to do a few weeks ago when I found this bug report. But, I
don't think this is necessarily a bug, but a missing feature.
The sentence below is copied from Nautilus' help file -
file:///usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide/C/user-guide.xml#nautilus-
permissions-folder
To set permissions for all the items contained in a folder, set the
File Access and Execute properties and click on Apply permissions to
enclosed files.
Nowhere does it mention anything about being able set OWNERSHIP
recursively. Only permissions.
The title of this bug is gksudo nautilus won't set
ownership/permissions on files below. If there are any valid arguments
to keep the bug open, I think it should be renamed to Nautilus won't
recursively set ownership of files and directories. But again, this
just seems like a feature request to me.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Invalid
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gksudo nautilus won't set ownership/permissions on files
