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Hello everyone, I have a tiny problem in Gnome 2.24 on Gentoo/amd64.
Not long ago I bought a 1 TB SATA hard drive. Being influenced by FreeBSD as I am, I partitioned it up into 7 partitions: /boot, swap, /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home. However, upon switching to Gnome from Xfce I started noticing small problems in Gnome. Nautilus, and most other programs trying to access my /home folder, were blatantly ignoring my file permissions (which are set to 777). Neither logged in as user nor root could I change the file permissions in Nautilus. Here's what the Nautilus info window looks like:
I have already tried all the humanly possible with octal permissions, /etc/fstab and GDM configuration (I set RelaxPermissions=2 in GDM's custom.conf). So my question is this: how do I enable every program to write to my /home partition?
If you are not changing the file permissions using -R, the change will not affect the contents inside.
Hello Barunparichha,
I always use the recursive ( -R ) option. If you look at my screenshot, you'll see the folder permissions are interpreted as 777 by Nautilus as well, but somehow it regards file access as '000'. I'd like to find out how to govern file permissions (as opposed to folder permissions, which are fine).
I also typed $umask as user and superuser, but it generates no output. (?)
I have added 'umask 022' (for 755 permissions) to ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile, but still Gnome can't handle file permissions. Also, if I summon the properties window of a drive or partition from the desktop, Nautilus complains that it can't determine the permissions:
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