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Hello!
I'm using Cinnamon as desktop. Today I found what extracting downloaded zip files from GitHub projects with standard GUI Nemo fileroller app using menu "Extract" or drag and drop function, breaks archive folders permissions. All folders from archive came with 700. But if I extract downloaded zip archive in console with unzip command or use git clone I'm getting all folders with correct permissions. Is this bug or it's app feature like some protection? I'm using Firefox as web browser.
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Hi,
This could probably use some more information. I am missing the point of how exactly permissions are broken. To what are they changed? What are you trying to archive?
I have tried to download a simple archive and I used Extract in Nemo to extract it, with a right click. The directory Permissions are 755 and the files in the directory all have 700 permissions. The downloaded file had 700 permissions. If I unzip the file in the console, it has the same permissions. 700 after extracting the files and 755 for the directory.
That said, I think it is pretty common, that permissions are set up that way. 755 for the directory and 700 for the files. It basically allows everybody to see the directory and the files in it, but only you have full permissions (read, write, run, delete, etc.). In a private setting, this is usually fine because there is only one user at the computer, working in their home directory, or several users share the same one. So there would be no need for anybody else but your user to access those files. In cases where multiple user accounts exist, you generally don't want one user to be able to manipulate or delete stuff in another user's directory.
Of course, there are some more advanced cases, server setups, etc. where you might need groupwide permissions or more fine-grained permission management, but that needs to be set up manually. You could set up some shared directory, maybe even under home, something like ~/work and then set permissions to that for your work group. But again, more information would be required.
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