Thanks to stop by. :) >> I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : >> >> chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents >> >> and : >> >> chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents
[...] > Which commands did you run as root, or su/sudo root? > > I have sometimes, especially when moving files between systems where > the numeric uids are different, found myself doing a recursive chmod > or chown, and being unable to change permissions on some files because > of the user I was running as. Then, after the directory permissions > changed, being able to change them on a second pass. I ran all commands with sudo. Actually I remember to encounter the case also but what did the trick here was to pass the command in symbolic mode not in octal. I don't why but all things work just fine now. I don't know if it is the reason but the recalcitrant files were mostly (maybe all) windows files. Just a hypothesis.. Cheers -- “One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.” “Le vrai n'est pas plus sûr que le probable.” Diogene Laerce
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