Hello,

What can be, is the sharedfolder tries to emulate on the guest what it sees
on the host. and linux/osx have a more easy task..

and in the windows box, your bash does a better job than the virtualbox
shared folder. (both are emulating a bit)

If I get a request to make the permissions to work , and they are on git, I
will do the git clone inside the guest on a real filesystem.

around this idea, couple of crazyness can be used if you want to say make
the work survive a vagrant destroy, but will be workarounds and manual
work, that I am not sure if will worth the time, etc

sorry for not being more helpful on this one, but is a tricky one..


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Lon Binder <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Alvaro! I tried both options B & C you mentioned; they work
> similarly (as expected) to what I had tried, which is that they override
> all the permissions, whereas I need to maintain the permissions.
>
> To answer your two questions:
>
> 1. Why do I expect to see the perms stay the same:
> Because when I'm in MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/> I see the correct
> permissions. Some files have +x; some don't. These are checked out from Git
> and the bit is set correctly (at least it visibly looks right from an ls-
> al). To me, this means the information is available on my host somewhere,
> therefore there should be some way to make this bit known to the guest VM.
>
> It is hard (for me) to tell whether the executable bit is actually set
> locally because the linux emulators have tendency to look for and guess the
> +x flag for files that *look* like executables (such as these rules
> <http://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.api.executables>). However, I
> compared the settings to those on my OSX colleagues' machines and the
> settings in my env match theirs. (could be coincidence).
>
> 2. Why I want this:
> Because some files are executable and should be. For instance, scripts
> need to be executable. Other files are not executable and shouldn't be
> (mostly because ansible complains when they are).
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 4, 2014 6:26:41 PM UTC-4, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Please, relax, what I am going to write can be sound weird (it's weird
>> actually)
>>
>> but, you have 2 Filesystems that are not a real filesystem.
>>
>> Let me explain.
>>
>> The guest is linux, so, linux understand what rwx rwx rwx are
>> user-group-other
>>
>> but, neither virtualbox shared folder neither windows have those
>> permissions
>>
>> if in windows you do  dir /a
>>
>> you will see a lot of information, but no permissions at all..
>>
>> ntfs have some sort of ACL (access control list)
>> vfat/fat32 they only do 777 for directories and 666 for files
>>
>> so trying to see on the linux guest what you have in windows over
>> virtualbox shared folder will be probably a big headache..
>>
>> but! is not needed.
>>
>> you have few options
>>
>> A. Use windows filesharing and samba client on the guest, so windows will
>> do the checks on user/group but this is not rwx rwx rwx or user-group-other
>>
>>   if the user that is trying to mount have user or group access, and
>> match, etc. will mount then will be able to read/write etc..
>>
>> B. Use virtualbox sharefolder and set gid/uid/dmode=770/fmode=660 and
>> make the user that will use these files to have acess to use it
>>
>> C. use dmode=777,fmode=666
>>
>>
>> now, with this little explanation, can I ask.. Why do you expect see the
>> same permissions from the windows bash inside the vm?
>>
>> if you were using linux/osx -> nfs -> linux guest, sure, you will
>>
>> but in any other combination, i don't think it will, and is not required
>> to be.
>>
>> more than happy to assist, just share why/what you want this, so I can
>> can understand..
>>
>> at this moment, I will say go for my suggestion C or B
>>
>> Alvaro.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Lon Binder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Files permissions are getting changed inside the guest host for shared
>>> folders.
>>>
>>> Running VirtualBox 4.3.12, controlling via Vagrant 1.6.3, on Windows 7
>>> Pro SP1, operating a guest of CentOS 6.5, all via MINGW32_NT-6.1 (inside
>>> Atlassian SourceTree Shell).
>>>
>>> From MINGW32 shell, example output of ls -al within a folder to be
>>> shared:
>>> drwxr-xr-x    1 lon.bind Administ     4096 Aug  4 09:06 group_vars
>>> -rw-r--r--    1 lon.bind Administ      211 Jul 24 18:20 hosts.office
>>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 lon.bind Administ      153 Jul 24 18:20 hosts.dev
>>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 lon.bind Administ      153 Jul 24 18:20 hosts.lab
>>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 lon.bind Administ      154 Jul 24 18:20 hosts.mgmt
>>>
>>>
>>> Those are all exactly as they should be.
>>>
>>> From within CentOS VM, same command from inside the shared folder:
>>> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root  4096 Aug  4 13:06 group_vars
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   211 Jul 24 22:20 hosts.office
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   153 Jul 24 22:20 hosts.dev
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   153 Jul 24 22:20 hosts.lab
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   154 Jul 24 22:20 hosts.mgmt
>>>
>>>
>>> Now everything is root and 777.
>>>
>>> If I change my config.vm.synced_folder mount_options I can alter the
>>> owner, the group (same as if I change mount options in remounting the
>>> shared folder). I can forceably override the file perms as well, using
>>> either umask or fmode -- this makes all files the same. They should be
>>> individually set as they originally are.
>>>
>>> For example, can override like this:
>>> config.vm.synced_folder VagrantUtil.src_code_dir(), "/opt/wp/app", owner
>>> : "vagrant", group: "vagrant", :mount_options => ['dmode=777',
>>> 'fmode=770']
>>>
>>> How do I get the permissions to remain as they are in the host?
>>>
>>> Halp! Alvaro, save me :-)
>>>
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