it's a know fuse "feature" https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534284
*This is all unfortunate, but its a decision that has been taken by the fuse people at the kernel level (user others than the one who mounted the fs can't access it, including root) and there is nothing we can do about it.* 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 >
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