Interesting, what are the permissions of all of the parent directories? On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Brian van den Broek < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- ___..___........__.......__ ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi
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