On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 09:04:04PM +0100, Colin Clark wrote:
> On 09/07/11 04:48, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just confirmed what was bugging me for a while and somehow sounds
> > vaguely familiar (someone else may have reported it recently on this
> > list).
> >
> > I'm using Geeqie 1.0 on Debian, just updated.
> >
> > When trying to manipulate files for which I have group write permissions
> > but not user write permissions, the operation fails (such as move or
> > delete).
> >
> When testing for permissions the operating system looks at
> user/group/world in that order.
>
> If you are the owner of the file and do not have write permission, then
> the operating system does not consider the group or world write permissions.
I am not the owner of the file. I am only a member of the group.
That does seem silly that if I have write perms as a member of that
group, but I don't have write perms as owner that I can't modify it.
> Colin Clark
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