/media/robert/Shared is an NTFS in a partition of my first internal drive. I do not have this problem with the 4 external USB drives with NTFS file systems. The larger (> 5TB) external drives are ext4, since Ubuntu does not work with NTFS on large drives. I did notice the everyone permissions, so that is why I can use the drives at all. NTSF does provide owner and group permissions, but I guess the code in buried in Windows and not the NTSF specification. At least Ubuntu provides a partial implementation of the NT File System.
M <https://andre.tips/wmh/>ike, I would like to personally thank you for responding to my report. You are the first one to respond to any of my bug reports. I had written Ubuntu off since none of my reports had been looked at (other than bot replies and statements saying my reports were being discarded). At least one bug I reported is over 5 years old and still not assigned to anyone it fix, even though the fix was simple. You appear to be the only developer with any ubuntu. Thank you, Robert Pearson On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 8:50 AM Mike Salvatore <1830...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Robert, > > What kind of filesystem is on /media/robert/Shared? It is likely that > /media/robert/Shared is a fat32, exfat, or NTFS filesystem. These > filesystems do not support posix permissions and therefore any attempt > to change the permissions/ownership will fail. > > You stated that, "I know that the reported owner and group are lies ... > because if the owner were in fact root, I would not be able to create, > modify, and delete files as robert." Looking at your screenshot, it > appears that permissions for "Others" are set as "Create and delete > files". This grants any user on the system permission to create and > delete files (including robert). > > Have you tried to reproduce the issue with files on /home/robert/ ? > > Thanks > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830987 > > Title: > Cannot change directory owner or group > > Status in caja package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > When I open the properties window for a Pluma directory open as > superuser I see the owner and group as root. I know that this is > incorrect because robert is able to create and delete files. When I > try and change the owner and group to robert, the option immediately > changes back to root. This is a security bug and has had no response > in over two months. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 > Package: pluma 1.20.2-1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21-generic 4.18.20 > Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64 > ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.3 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: MATE > Date: Wed May 29 21:17:25 2019 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-16 (164 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 > (20181017.2) > SourcePackage: pluma > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/caja/+bug/1830987/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830987 Title: Cannot change directory owner or group To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/caja/+bug/1830987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
