[SOLVED] new folder permissions issue

petevick · 01-19-2018, 08:35 AM

Hi, I'm using Linux Mint 18.3. I have an issue when creating a new folder on my internal hard drive formatted to ext4. At the moment the HD owner is 'pete' and the group owner is 'root' and all three Folder Access fields are 'Create and delete files'
If I create a new folder the owner is still 'pete' but the group owner is now also 'pete' and the third Folder Access field is 'Access files'.

How do I make any new folder inherit the root folder permissions ?

BW-userx · 01-19-2018, 10:13 AM

use root

Code:

userx@solus3:~
$ sudo su
root@solus3 /home/userx # mkdir rooty
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  root     4096 Jan 19 10:14 rooty

root@solus3 /home/userx # chown userx rooty
root@solus3 /home/userx # chown userx rooty

why are you getting user : root ( group ) on your creation of a dir being a user?

you can make root group the primary group for pete, but you'd have to think your implementations over about that, how are they going to be used and accessed and by whom?

hydrurga · 01-19-2018, 11:50 AM

Just a couple of quick questions.

What file manager are you using that shows you 'Create and delete files' and 'Access files'? I'm more used to rwx permissions and don't know how these descriptions of yours exactly equate to those.

Why is it that you want the group set to root? What are you trying to do?

petevick · 01-20-2018, 06:15 AM

I use Nemo file manager.

Having looked into this a bit more, my main problem is that if I copy photo files from my camera to a folder on the hard drive, those files are showing no group access (and therefore not seen by Plex), I've tried both root and pete as group owners. Permissions for the folder look ok, at the moment owner and group is pete and all folder access is set to 'Create and delete files'. I just don't get it.

jsbjsb001 · 01-20-2018, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petevick

I use Nemo file manager.

Having looked into this a bit more, my main problem is that if I copy photo files from my camera to a folder on the hard drive, those files are showing no group access (and therefore not seen by Plex), I've tried both root and pete as group owners. Permissions for the folder look ok, at the moment owner and group is pete and all folder access is set to 'Create and delete files'. I just don't get it.

It would probably be best to show us what permissions you currently have;

Can you open a terminal window and type the following:

Code:

ls -la /path/to/folder

Replace "/path/to/folder" with the actual path to the folder in question.

petevick · 01-20-2018, 09:14 AM

OK, I've given up trying to fight ext4 permissions and reformatted the drive as ntfs, should have done that in the first place as it's just a data drive.

Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it.