Hi all, I have an unexpected permissions situation:
brian@thoralf:~$ ls -la |grep gvfs && ls -la .gvfs/ dr-x------ 2 brian brian 0 2012-07-24 00:17 .gvfs total 12 dr-x------ 2 brian brian 0 2012-07-24 00:17 . drwx------ 85 brian brian 12288 2012-07-24 12:50 .. brian@thoralf:~$ sudo ls -la |grep gvfs ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs brian@thoralf:~$ sudo ls -la .gvfs/ ls: cannot access .gvfs/: Permission denied brian@thoralf:~$ sudo su root@thoralf:/home/brian# ls -la|grep gvfs ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs root@thoralf:/home/brian# ls -la .gvfs ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied As you can see, I am able to access /home/brian/.gvfs while running my normal account (brian), but not when using sudo with that account, nor if I switch to the root account. My first thought is "Unpossible!" This is on an ubuntu 10.04 system and arises while I am backing up all data in preparation to install another distro. So, I'm not interested in solving the issue, but in understanding just how it could be possible that a user can access files, but neither that user working via sudo nor the root account can. The closest thing I found to an answer is various posts in the thread at <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=9ebb133f08e3d756c512835be265be3a&t=791693>, but, unless I misunderstand, all that really is said there is "There's a bug." This I knew :-) So, how for the love of puppies, it is possible that root could have more restricted access than a user account? Even granting there's a bug, I'm puzzled. Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
