On Monday 03 Nov 2003 6:10 pm, Brian Sands wrote: > Hello, > I recently copied various pdf files and folders from an NTFS partition > on my computer over to my Mandrake 9.2 distro; and I am having some > issues. When running ls -l as a user, it says that I own the file; and > I get the same permissions when running ls -l as root. Yet, I am unable > to enact any changes when running chmod as a user (who owns the file) OR > as root. I noticed that all of the pdf files have a trailing "*" which > I assume to mean the file is an excutable. However, any pdf's that I > download while using linux do not show up with a trailing "*". I am > also unable to change any permissions on directories that I transferred > over from an NTFS partition. What am I missing here; and how do I fix > this?
The NTFS permissions were probably "everybody, full access" which is why you are getting execute permission added. To change permissions on Linux you need write access to the directory, not the file. But root should be able to set everything. Check the permissions of each directory above the files. They must have read and execute permission for the user that is trying to read the file. HTH, -- Richard Urwin
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