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[SOLVED] Inconsistent folder permissions
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2015, 10:03:55 AM »
 

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I converted two internal partitions to ext4 and they ended up with exclusive root ownership and viewing permissions. It seems to me that root ownership of the partition is a good thing, but I want all admins to be able to read and write, and others to read.

I didn't have any success with

       sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=r /seagate100

so I opened the partition as administrator in Thunar, and went to the Properties/Permissions tab, and there set the Group to sudo. It took a long time to process, and though it was nominally successful and I now can see and access the partition's contents, it now says there are inconsistencies in the permissions.

Is what I am trying to do the best way to deal with the permissions? And what is the best way to achieve it?

Thanks,
Paul


EDIT:
Looks like this is solved. It seems the problem was when I switched the Group to sudo. The dialog made the change immediately, which left owner root with rwx permissions, but the new group sudo, of which root is a member, still with only Read permissions. That's a no-no. I went back and equated the permissions of owner and group (rwx, via command line), and after a few minutes the conflict disappeared.

It would be better if the dialog waited for all changes before implementing any, for the sake of conflicts and also only parsing the files once. But in any case this worked out.
« Last Edit: August 17, 2015, 01:34:02 PM by paul1149 »
 

 

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