On 24 July 2012 13:31, Yanik Doucet <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
Thanks Yanik and all others who replied. I was asked what I was trying to do. The situation arose while making a full back-up of /home before a distro hop. (I ran a du -sh on my /home via sudo and got the same sort of puzzling output as produced above). While I know next to nothing about FUSE and gvfs, I feel pretty sure there's nothing involved I need to back-up. So, my goal in posting was simply to understand a permissions situation I would have thought could not arise :-) All of this is a bit above my pay-grade, and while I'll take it on faith that the FUSE and gvfs people have their reasons for what seem a puzzling choice, faith is all I have here. Thanks to all, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
