Folder permissions issue...Ideas?

cwwilson721 · 11-19-2009, 01:47 AM

I like to play World of Warcraft under wine. A recent update to WoW makes the main launcher.exe change the folder permissions so I can't even access the folder until I change permissions back, and run Wow.exe instead.

By doing that, it makes updating patches a pain.

Any ideas on what I could do to stop the folders from changing permissions?

business_kid · 11-19-2009, 04:18 AM

What filesystem are we on? Have you tried a chown to root on the folder?

A workaround might be to move the directory structure aside
mv WoW/ someotherdir/
mkdir WoW
cd WoW
lndir ../someotherdir
cp ../someotherdir/launcher.exe .

A kind of symlink defense :-D. launcher would then mess with WoW/ but you could update someotherdir/ or simply rm -rf on WoW and rename someotherdir to update.

cwwilson721 · 11-19-2009, 06:10 AM

Won't work like that (Already tried it)

Isn't there someway to make dir permissions permanent?

Komakino · 11-19-2009, 06:14 AM

Could you write a shell script that loads the program and then sets the permissions back afterwards?

tux_dude · 11-19-2009, 10:07 AM

Change the permission to 770 and the owner to some one other than the WoW player. The WoW player must be in the group that owns the directory. That way the WoW player cannot change the permission, but can read/write to the directory.