Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gvfs
Release: Ubuntu 8.10. Package: gvfs 1.0.2-0ubuntu1 Expected: User connected to remote system via ssh/sftp (nautilus/gvfs) could write/create/delete files in a directory because he's a member of the directorie's owning group. What happened: User has no write permissions inside the directory. Basically: Directory permissions based on secondary group membership are completely ignored in Nautilus with an ssh/sftp connection. As long as the user or his primary group owns the directory, no problem. If he's not the owner and the group is only a secondary one he's in, he gets denied write permission. Example: I have a directory on machine "remotepc" /shared with permissions like drwxrwsr-x and ownership root:users. I have a user, sally on machine "localpc" who's a member of local groups sally and users, as well as being a member of users on "remotepc". Sally connects to "remotepc" with nautilus as herself using sftp://remotepc. Sally is denied permission to write into directory /shared (can't create, delete or save edited files) even though group users has write permission and she's a member of that group. If Sally does a "scp somefile remotepc:/shared/" it works just fine (since scp "knows" she's a member of users and therefore can write). If Sally copise, deletes, etc. files via command-line sftp, same resul .. it works (as it should). If Sally ssh's into remotepc and creates/deletes or edits files in the /shared directory everything works just fine (again, as it should). The ONLY time Sally has an issue is when she's connected via nautilus/gvfs/fuse where it shows her as having no ability to do anything but traverse the directory and read files (other's x-r). Any directory where she's the owner, or her primary group is the owner, no problem. Any directory where she's not the owner and is a secondary member of the owning group, she does not get the group permissions. Needless to say this makes a lot of things not work over sftp/ssh in a major way, and is NOT the behavior for ssh or sftp. ** Affects: gvfs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- gvfs ignoring secondary group membership in ssh/sftp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
