You can't change the permissions on stuff in external storage. That uses a FAT filesystem, which doesn't have permissions, so all files there simply immutably use the permissions of the mount point.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: > Kostya and Mark answered your main question; I'll address your ps. > > Applications are indeed 'other' in the permissions you list below, but > applications do have their own uids, so an Application's directory > will be owned by its uid. > > An application with the right permission I'm guessing is put into the > sdcard_rw group, and thus would come in under the group permissions > instead. > > I believe chmod command doesn't take the symbolic arguments -- you'll > have to use the numeric arguments like we did back in the 1970's. > > I'm not sure why you were trying to remove the 'other' permissions on > that file, but let's say you did ls -l on it, and the permissions were > -rw-r--r--. You'd convert this to the numeric form: 644. Your o-rwx > would mean 'turn off all the bits in the last digit', so you'd want > chmod 640 ... > > I'd love to have a document on the command-line commands! > > You can install the busybox toolkit, and get much improved versions of > many commands, such as this. I find a rooted device without busybox to > be very disconcerting. Busybox puts a large number of commands in one > executable to make it quite small, and then symlinks to it under each > command name. It looks at the name to figure which command you're > asking for. > > On Aug 9, 10:59 am, john brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > P.S. > > I got a command prompt via c:\Program Files\Android-SDK\tools> adb > > shell > > > > # ls -l /sdcard/Android/data/lms > > ----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 63 2010-07-19 15:17 > > mpReadAbDdx201006.txt > > ----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 45211 2010-07-19 15:17 > > mpTranAbDdx201006.txt > > > > The way I read this is that the owner's rights are ---, group is rwx, > > others is r-x. I'm just guessing, the application is others? > > > > But I cannot get chmod to change the attributes, i.e.: > > > > # chmode o-rwx /sdcard/Android/data/lms/mpReadAbDdx201006.txt > > Bad mode > > > > (I get the same file attributes when I copy file to sdcard via DDMS > > File Explorer.) > > > > Where can I find documentation to the Android linux (?) commands? (I > > mean the command line commands) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
