Re: Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Steve Searle wrote: >> I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba >> partition with command >> >> mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="xxx",rw //xxx /mnt/mydir >> >> I do not hav

Re: Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:27pm on Thursday, November 26, 2009 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: > I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba > partition with command > > mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="xxx",rw //xxx /mnt/mydir > > I do not hav

Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba partition with command mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="xxx",rw //xxx /mnt/mydir I do not have writing permissions on the mounted directory. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul -- fedora-list ma

Re: NFS cache permissions

2009-11-13 Thread Bruno Galindro da Costa
xpress myself quite well. Is there any other solution for this problem where it isn´t necessary to re-export the shares? 2009/11/12 Rick Stevens : > On 11/12/2009 11:41 AM, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: >> >> Hi yall, >> >> Is it possible to clear the nfs cache permissi

Re: NFS cache permissions

2009-11-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/12/2009 11:41 AM, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: Hi yall, Is it possible to clear the nfs cache permissions? I´m asking this because I´ve made a NFS share with client access restrictions and the users that have no more permissions, can still access the share. The share has the following

NFS cache permissions

2009-11-12 Thread Bruno Galindro da Costa
Hi yall, Is it possible to clear the nfs cache permissions? I´m asking this because I´ve made a NFS share with client access restrictions and the users that have no more permissions, can still access the share. The share has the following permissions (2770): drwxrws--- 5 nobody vmail 1024

Re: bind-chroot directory permissions?

2009-09-28 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Also, how have you got SELinux set? Tom Horsley: > Nah, selinux gets turned off first thing. I'd recommend using it with any public services. And even on private networks, where you might have rogue clients. But I have to ask, did you actually disable it, or just put it into permissive

Re: bind-chroot directory permissions?

2009-09-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:53:58 -0400 Gene Czarcinski wrote: > 4. Then, in the zone definitions in the named.conf file, you need to point > to > the subdirectory with something like: > file "dynamic/lcl.db"; > rather than: > file "lcl.db"; Yep, I was beginning to suspect that was the

Re: bind-chroot directory permissions?

2009-09-28 Thread Gene Czarcinski
permission denied > > I'm not sure what directory it is trying to write those > in, but I found and chmodded a few more directories > and haven't seen one of those messages since. > > Should directory permissions be adjusted in one or more > of the rpms to take these thin

Re: bind-chroot directory permissions?

2009-09-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:10:11 +0930 Tim wrote: > Also, how have you got SELinux set? Nah, selinux gets turned off first thing. I didn't have the /var/named/chroot/var/named/data directory, but I created it, and I still see it writing .jnl files in /var/named/chroot/var/named Maybe I just have a

Re: bind-chroot directory permissions?

2009-09-25 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I recently enabled dynamic DNS for the virtual machines I've > been installing and named started getting errors (running > as chroot) trying to write .jnl files to the /var/named > directory under the chroot. Fixing the directory to > be root:

bind-chroot directory permissions?

2009-09-25 Thread Tom Horsley
irectories and haven't seen one of those messages since. Should directory permissions be adjusted in one or more of the rpms to take these things into account? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list G

Re: Resetting File and Directory Permissions To Original Values

2009-09-12 Thread inode0
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > While trying to fix a problem where users of the Fedora version of Wordpress > are unable to upload images using the Wordpress screens and code, I spent a > lot of time modifying file and directory permissions in > /usr/sha

Resetting File and Directory Permissions To Original Values

2009-09-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
While trying to fix a problem where users of the Fedora version of Wordpress are unable to upload images using the Wordpress screens and code, I spent a lot of time modifying file and directory permissions in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/*, trying various combinations of user-group

Re: Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 09/10/2009 11:19 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote: >> I think what is happening is this: gedit has been instrumented to >> preserve the security.selinux attribute on files. This works fine when >> SELinux is enabled, as SELinux applies a set of permission checks on >> setting

Re: Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
nux which I don't need. >>> >>> As a result many files have permissions which include a dot at the end, >>> e.g.: >>> >>> -rw-rw-r--. >>> >>> This causes havoc with many applications, i.e. gedit complains it cannot >>> mak

Re: Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-10 Thread Sean Carlos
Stephen Smalley wrote the following on 09/10/2009 02:57 PM: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 07:58 +0200, Sean Carlos wrote: At one point I performed a new Fedora install and restored my personal files before disabling SELinux which I don't need. As a result many files have permissions which incl

Re: Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:58 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 09/10/2009 01:58 AM, Sean Carlos wrote: > > > > At one point I performed a new Fedora install and restored my personal > > files before disabling SELinux which I don't need. > > > > As a re

Re: Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 09/10/2009 01:58 AM, Sean Carlos wrote: > > At one point I performed a new Fedora install and restored my personal > files before disabling SELinux which I don't need. > > As a result many files have permissions which include a dot at the end, > e.g.: > > -rw-r

Re: Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 07:58 +0200, Sean Carlos wrote: > At one point I performed a new Fedora install and restored my personal > files before disabling SELinux which I don't need. > > As a result many files have permissions which include a dot at the end, > e.g.: >

Easy way to remove SELinux permissions?

2009-09-09 Thread Sean Carlos
At one point I performed a new Fedora install and restored my personal files before disabling SELinux which I don't need. As a result many files have permissions which include a dot at the end, e.g.: -rw-rw-r--. This causes havoc with many applications, i.e. gedit complains it c

Re: Wordpress Permissions For Image Uploads

2009-09-05 Thread Manuel Aróstegui
El sáb, 05-09-2009 a las 12:52 -0400, Robert L Cochran escribió: > I installed the Fedora package of wordpress and promptly created a user > account for myself and tried to upload a photo to my first post. The > upload keeps failing due to permissions problems. Wordpress wants to >

Wordpress Permissions For Image Uploads

2009-09-05 Thread Robert L Cochran
I installed the Fedora package of wordpress and promptly created a user account for myself and tried to upload a photo to my first post. The upload keeps failing due to permissions problems. Wordpress wants to upload (via php scripts) to /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09. I

Re: file permissions

2009-07-15 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:25:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 02:22 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> Looking at file permissions, I see there is a . at the end of the >> permissions. As in >> >> >> [r...@phoenix ~]# ls -l somefile >

Re: file permissions

2009-07-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 02:22 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > Looking at file permissions, I see there is a . at the end of the > permissions. As in > > > [r...@phoenix ~]# ls -l somefile > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 2009-07-14 22:20 somefile > > ^ >

file permissions

2009-07-14 Thread Amadeus W.M.
Looking at file permissions, I see there is a . at the end of the permissions. As in [r...@phoenix ~]# ls -l somefile -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 2009-07-14 22:20 somefile ^ here That's new to me. What does it mean? Where is it documented? -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 17:10 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: /etc/fstab on the client box9: 192.168.1.48:/home/NFS-files/mnt/homenfs defaults,rw,user 0 0 192.168.1.48:/media/SimpleDrive/data/ /mnt/home nfs defaults,rw,user0 0 As C

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 17:10 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > /etc/fstab on the client box9: > > 192.168.1.48:/home/NFS-files/mnt/homenfs defaults,rw,user > 0 0 > 192.168.1.48:/media/SimpleDrive/data/ /mnt/home nfs > defaults,rw,user0 0 As Craig said,

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:02:32 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I used /mnt/home since that was what was used in an example that I > followed first time around. It seemed ok to me since /mnt has > nothing in it. What would be a better choice? I use /mnt/ for mounting nfs shares, and for mount

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
Craig White wrote: you definitely should not have " targeted for the same mount point (/mnt/home) - that is a problem. Also, it is tricky to do 'user' mounts because users would necessarily have write permissions. So I would suggest that as root, you not only fix /etc/fstab o

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Craig White
anyone tell me how to enable user "bobg" to access the nfs server on > >>>> my box48? > >>>> > >>>> At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will > >>>> need a new install to get them back where they ought

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin : Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin : Can anyone tell me how to enable user "bobg" to access the nfs server on my box48? At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will need a new inst

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin : > Sharpe, Sam J wrote: >> >> 2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin : >> >>> >>> Can anyone tell me how to enable user "bobg" to access the nfs server on >>> my box48? >>> >>> At the rate I'm going I will have a

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin : Can anyone tell me how to enable user "bobg" to access the nfs server on my box48? At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will need a new install to get them back where they ought to be. [b...@box9 ~

Re: Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/7/4 Bob Goodwin : > Can anyone tell me how to enable user "bobg" to access the nfs server on my > box48? > > At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will need > a new install to get them back where they ought to be. > >   [b.

Nfs permissions problem -

2009-07-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can anyone tell me how to enable user "bobg" to access the nfs server on my box48? At the rate I'm going I will have all the permissions set to 777, will need a new install to get them back where they ought to be. [b...@box9 ~]$ ll -al /mnt/home ls: cannot access /mnt/h

Re: Need advice re: checking permissions !?

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
William Case wrote: > I have a program that I suspect has a permissions bug. It could be an SELinux-related problem. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.

Re: Need advice re: checking permissions !?

2009-05-15 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
2009/5/15 William Case : > Hi; > > Don't waste time on explaining how permissions work.  I have got that > right down to the kernel level. > > I have a program that I suspect has a permissions bug.  I have checked > dmesg and nothing is said about a permissions proble

Re: Need advice re: checking permissions !?

2009-05-15 Thread William Case
Hi Rick and thanks; On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:24 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Don't waste time on explaining how permissions work. I have got that > > right down to the kernel level. > > > > I have a program t

Re: Need advice re: checking permissions !?

2009-05-15 Thread Rick Stevens
William Case wrote: Hi; Don't waste time on explaining how permissions work. I have got that right down to the kernel level. I have a program that I suspect has a permissions bug. I have checked dmesg and nothing is said about a permissions problem. Can I count on dmesg ALWAYS being

Need advice re: checking permissions !?

2009-05-15 Thread William Case
Hi; Don't waste time on explaining how permissions work. I have got that right down to the kernel level. I have a program that I suspect has a permissions bug. I have checked dmesg and nothing is said about a permissions problem. Can I count on dmesg ALWAYS being right. Or, is there an

Re: Permissions on USB device (camera)

2009-03-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Note that I added a rule in 50-default.perms for /dev/usdbdev* and now the device gets set to be owned by my local user account properly. I'm sure there's another solution though. :-) Ray -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

Permissions on USB device (camera)

2009-03-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
I'm running in XFCE (I boot in run-level 3 and start it with startxfce) and when I plug in my USB camera (Canon A720), the /dev/usbdev* devices all are set up owned by root.root with 660 permissions. This means I can't use the device as my local user account. I haven't yet gone

Re: FC, Samba, and permissions problems

2009-02-26 Thread James Wilkinson
Gary Stainburn wrote: > I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem > > I've set security to share, and then set up the following share Is SELinux enabled? Have you checked for SELinux errors? Have you reviewed the SELinux Samba booleans? I think they were in system-conf

Re: FC, Samba, and permissions problems

2009-02-25 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
Gary Stainburn wrote: I've set security to share, and then set up the following share [reef] comment = Reef shared folder path = /user/remote/reef writeable = yes browseable = yes guest ok = yes guest only = yes valid users = gary f

FC, Samba, and permissions problems

2009-02-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem I've set security to share, and then set up the following share [reef] comment = Reef shared folder path = /user/remote/reef writeable = yes browseable = yes guest ok = yes guest

Re: LibUSB/LibFTDI permissions problem

2009-01-09 Thread Dmitri Bachtin
http://rafb.net/p/CY7p2S91.html and sample code at http://rafb.net/p/OmEu0t95.html in hope it might be of use. When sleep(...) hit, the device file was already away. After a ftdi_usb_find_all(...) it is still there. > > ... > As for the permissions... look at configuration PolicyK

Re: LibUSB/LibFTDI permissions problem

2009-01-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
boards I have on hand. > > Is there anything I'm missing? As for the permissions... look at configuration PolicyKit to change the authorizations for serial modems GUI in Gnome is in the menu: System->Preferences->System->Authorizations look for the hal device access for seri

LibUSB/LibFTDI permissions problem

2009-01-09 Thread Dmitri Bachtin
device. LibUSB's usb_strerror() reports "could not set config 1: Operation not permitted", LibFTDI's ftdi_get_error_string() reports "inappropriate permissions on device!". Executing with root rights works. The failure occurs on ftdi_usb_open Neither chmodding nor chowni

Re: Help Setting /dev/fw* Permissions

2008-12-16 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
RGH wrote: I know vaguely how to do this, but can't find the right file: What do I need to change so that the permissions on /dev/fw* aren't just root and ordinary users can access e.g. the video camera? Same question for /dev/video*. Cheers, rh Hi, You could look /etc/udev/rules.

Help Setting /dev/fw* Permissions

2008-12-16 Thread RGH
I know vaguely how to do this, but can't find the right file: What do I need to change so that the permissions on /dev/fw* aren't just root and ordinary users can access e.g. the video camera? Same question for /dev/video*. Cheers, rh -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@red

Re: Configuration file setting user permissions.

2008-12-15 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 00:29 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > There is a configuration file that is used to set the permissions > of a list of files to the user, when that user logs in. > Things like the audio files, possibly X11. > > I cant remember the name of that file, can someone

Configuration file setting user permissions.

2008-12-15 Thread Reg Clemens
There is a configuration file that is used to set the permissions of a list of files to the user, when that user logs in. Things like the audio files, possibly X11. I cant remember the name of that file, can someone help? -- Reg.Clemens

Wierd permissions running system-config-services.

2008-11-28 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
I modified the /etc/pam.d/gdm to allow the root gui login by commenting the user != root, and that worked, but have a strange result. Running Systems Administration Services runs the system-config-services program, but nothing changes. Starting program from a terminal window also results in no

Sound card permissions

2008-11-18 Thread James Allsopp
un into the >> problem that udev I think is constantly rewriting the permissions for >> /dev/snd >> I've made a group audio and I've added myself to it and recursively >> changed the group of /dev/snd/*, but next time I boot I have to do it >> again. >&g

Re: Sound card permissions

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Sound card permissions From: James Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 11/17/2008 09:28 AM How can I make udev make /dev/snd/* group audio always? You will need to brush

Sound card permissions

2008-11-17 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm trying to run mpd and icecast under my own username but run into the problem that udev I think is constantly rewriting the permissions for /dev/snd I've made a group audio and I've added myself to it and recursively changed the group of /dev/snd/*, but next time I boot

MPD permissions under Fedora core 9

2008-11-16 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm trying to run mpd and icecast under my own username but run into the problem that udev I think is constantly rewriting the permissions for /dev/snd I've made a group audio and I've added myself to it and recursively changed the group of /dev/snd/*, but next time I boot

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Nice to hear...or is it a change in GVFS? No, FUSE hasn't changed. The GVFS filesystem remains private to the user who mounted it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://f

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-05 Thread Rick Stevens
Gordon Messmer wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: If -name is the first predicate, and you prune matches, find will not need to stat() the directory entry: Sorry, won't work for GVFS filesystem mountpoints. As soon as the non-owner touches the inode, the error occurs. ...

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: If -name is the first predicate, and you prune matches, find will not need to stat() the directory entry: Sorry, won't work for GVFS filesystem mountpoints. As soon as the non-owner touches the inode, the error occurs. ... Note that test was on F

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-05 Thread Rick Stevens
Gordon Messmer wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: You need to tell find what to do with files not named .gvfs: find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune -o -print Will not work. As soon as the non-owner of .gvfs does a stat on the directory, the error will be spit out. find must

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Rick Stevens wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: You need to tell find what to do with files not named .gvfs: find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune -o -print Will not work. As soon as the non-owner of .gvfs does a stat on the directory, the error will be spit out. find must "stat()" any item it fi

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-04 Thread Rick Stevens
Gordon Messmer wrote: Dave Burns wrote: man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I can think of, nothing works as I'd wish: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo f

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dave Burns wrote: man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I can think of, nothing works as I'd wish: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns -prun

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-03 Thread Rick Stevens
Dave Burns wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you just skip the .gvfs items specifically, by name, with -prune? man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I can think of, nothing works as I'd wish: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sud

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Burns
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you just skip the .gvfs items specifically, by name, with -prune? man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I can think of, nothing works as I'd wish: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-02 Thread Joe Smith
Gordon Messmer wrote: ... If you've ever seen find return results from a directory that it wasn't told to search when using -xdev or -mount, then that would be a bug. I've never seen find misbehave in that way, though. Well, there you go: it works as expected now. I should know better; "Tes

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Joe Smith wrote: Dave Burns wrote: ... Not sure if it is a bug in find or gvfs, but -xdev and -mount do not help with this problem. I've never seen these options work, ever. I sure would like to know why, or what I'm doing wrong, it would be handy to be able to use them. That depends on wha

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-11-01 Thread Joe Smith
Dave Burns wrote: ... Not sure if it is a bug in find or gvfs, but -xdev and -mount do not help with this problem. I've never seen these options work, ever. I sure would like to know why, or what I'm doing wrong, it would be handy to be able to use them. Can you just skip the .gvfs items spe

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 09:43 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I usually throw in the -mount option to find on general principles to keep > > it from walking into isos or nfs mounts that might be in arbitrary places > > and explic

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually throw in the -mount option to find on general principles to keep > it from walking into isos or nfs mounts that might be in arbitrary places > and explicitly list the mount points I want if it has to span them. No

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
s not open.) Corruption? How can it be that root is denied? I wonder what would happen if I deleted .gvfs and recreated it manually with identical permissions? % mount|grep gvfs gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/poc/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=poc) IOW .gvfs is a mount point for the

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Rick Stevens
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:34:01 -1000 Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I will probably just make a kludgey workaround - pipe error messages to /dev/null - always fun. My brother just sent me this email: QUOTE: My problem (OK - maybe just one of my problems) is tha

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is? (Is there a >> real solution?) > > Yeah, is there any gnome setting that lets you turn gv

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is? (Is there a > real solution?) Yeah, is there any gnome setting that lets you turn gvfs off or make it act reasonable? Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-li

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:34:01 -1000 Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I will probably just make a kludgey workaround - pipe error > messages to /dev/null - always fun. My brother just sent me this email: QUOTE: My problem (OK - maybe just one of my problems) is that I can't figure

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Dave Burns
The problem is the mount permissions/capabilities of the mount point. Try > re-mounting with 'rw, exec, suid,' and you will probably find that 'find' > finds what you would like found (sorry!... Could not resist). So you're saying Rick is wrong - the callbacks are availab

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:17 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:28 -0400 > > From: Todd Denniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exc

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread R. G. Newbury
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:28 -0400 From: Todd Denniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Message-ID: &

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Rick Stevens
t? I created an identical directory with identical permissions, root and find have no problem with that one. I think the key was mentioned by Todd - 'the callbacks and such used when referencing it only exist in the owner's Gnome instance.' That was me (Rick).

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:43:09 -1000 Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So... bro has no suggestion for a workaround? >From the message he sent me the other day when he resolved the issue on his computer: QUOTE: turns out that it was mounted under something...when I unmounted directory, I cou

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
point? I created an identical directory with identical permissions, root and find have no problem with that one. I think the key was mentioned by Todd - 'the callbacks and such used when referencing it only exist in the owner's Gnome instance.' Which I take it to mean, when find (as roo

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:27:32 -1000 Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a cron job that runs 'find /' as root, keeps blowing up when > encountering ~/.gvfs in my home dir. Permissions are set like so: My brother ran into this issue just the other day. I just a

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Rick Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: >> at least give me a hint what to do or what to google for. > > .gvfs is a virtual filesystem and doesn't follow normal filesystem > semantics (witness the fact the size of it is zero). So... It is not a

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Todd Denniston
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 10/29/2008 07:04 PM: (Does anyone else think .gvfs is a PITA?) +1 And wondering how much grief it is going to cause me while administrating an NFS|AFS|SMB server for home directories that I need to back up. I suppose I have a little while before RHEL gets infec

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
No Joy. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might try the -mount (or -xdev) options to 'find', but that will > also restrict you from crossing into other mounted filesystems. sudo find /users/tburns/ -xdev|grep gvfs find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Pe

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Rick Stevens
Dave Burns wrote: I have a cron job that runs 'find /' as root, keeps blowing up when encountering ~/.gvfs in my home dir. Permissions are set like so: ls -la ~/.gvfs total 4 dr-x-- 2 tburns isys0 2008-10-13 07:43 . drwxr-xr-x 73 tburns root 4096 2008-10-24 11:49 .. As ow

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
on? How can it be that root is denied? I wonder what > would happen if I deleted .gvfs and recreated it manually with > identical permissions? % mount|grep gvfs gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/poc/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=poc) IOW .gvfs is a mount point for the FUS

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Burns
I have a cron job that runs 'find /' as root, keeps blowing up when encountering ~/.gvfs in my home dir. Permissions are set like so: ls -la ~/.gvfs total 4 dr-x-- 2 tburns isys0 2008-10-13 07:43 . drwxr-xr-x 73 tburns root 4096 2008-10-24 11:49 .. As owner of dir, no prob

Re: Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
for all the system accounts as well. Also, I think that the command was something like: cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh >> /etc/samba/smbpasswd because I don't think the output of mksmbpasswd is in the correct for for smbpasswd. (I could be wrong.) > Now trying to use 'smbpasswd -

Re: Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-29 Thread Bob Latham
gt; >>> > >>> I want to setup a series of about a dozen folders that each have a > >>> Samba share associated with them. Then I would like to place all of > >>> those inside another folder that a super user can access and > >>> conse

Re: Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
iated with them. Then I would like to place all of >>> those inside another folder that a super user can access and >>> consequently all of the lower ranking shared folders below. >>> > > >> What are the permissions of the base folder? > > I'

Re: Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Latham
dn't worry about that for now. It wasn't the problem though as I can still only seem to share home directories. I just shared a home directory and then changed the path in smb.conf to point to another directory that I had copied permissions from the original. Now my client machine says the

Re: Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Latham
7;t. I thought I could create the > > super user and samba share his/her folder then create the sub folders > > and samba share them. I then thought it would be a simple case of > > setting the folder permissions to suit the required users but this > > doesn't work. Th

Re: Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
hought it would be a simple case of setting the > folder permissions to suit the required users but this doesn't work. There > is obviously a bit more to it. > > Anyone spare a few minutes to point me in the right direction on...? > > 1. How to give samba access to a folder th

Folder permissions and Samba - question

2008-08-27 Thread Bob Latham
g and the results have clearly shown that what I expected to be the case certainly isn't. I thought I could create the super user and samba share his/her folder then create the sub folders and samba share them. I then thought it would be a simple case of setting the folder permissions t

Re: "Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike McCarty wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Having root access only gives one effective ownership, not effective >>> permission. Being root gives one the same privileges the owner would >>> have. >>> >> It gets more interesting when you have fuse mounted file systems

Re: "Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Having root access only gives one effective ownership, not effective permission. Being root gives one the same privileges the owner would have. It gets more interesting when you have fuse mounted file systems. I have an encrypted file system as us

Re: "Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike McCarty wrote: > > Having root access only gives one effective ownership, not effective > permission. Being root gives one the same privileges the owner would > have. > It gets more interesting when you have fuse mounted file systems. I have an encrypted file system as user mikkel, and root

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