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Shashwat

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From: India

Registered: 2011-05-08

Posts: 101

[SOLVED] Peculiar behavior of Nautilus

I used set permission on my important files inorder to keep then out of reach from general users. I set the permission in Fedora14 which I was using previously.

The content is very important as it contains the articles that I used to write for various magazines. However I was trying to remove the permission so that I can view the contents of the folder.

I removed the permission as root and when I tried to view them using nautilus it doesn't show them as folders/directories. I even tried setting "Open with nautilus but to no avail.

Check the image http://i.imgur.com/zGzu6.png

Here is the output of ls -l

As normal user (even if I am the owner and group owner

[shashwat@myhost ~]$ ls -l /media/hd3/Articles\ \&\ Reviews/
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Other Reviews⁄Tutorials: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Scans: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/LFY Suggestions: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Linux Magazine: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/LFY Artwork: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/LFY Reviews: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Screenshot.png: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/TE Review: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Query.odt: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Muktware: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/COU: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Misc Screenshots: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Linux Presentation: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Ubunutu User Magazine: Permission denied
total 0
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? COU
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? LFY Artwork
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? LFY Reviews
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? LFY Suggestions
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Linux Magazine
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Linux Presentation
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Misc Screenshots
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Muktware
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Other Reviews⁄Tutorials
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Query.odt
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Scans
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Screenshot.png
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? TE Review
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Ubunutu User Magazine
[shashwat@myhost ~]$ 

As root

[root@myhost ~]# ls -l /media/hd3/Articles\ \&\ Reviews/
total 168
drwxrwxr-x 4 shashwat shashwat     48 Mar 20 12:24 COU
drwxrwxrwx 2 shashwat shashwat   4096 Mar  4 16:44 LFY Artwork
drwxrwxrwx 9 shashwat shashwat   4096 Jan  2 15:35 LFY Reviews
-rw-rw-rw- 1 shashwat shashwat   4197 Jan 29  2009 LFY Suggestions
drwxrwxrwx 8 shashwat shashwat   4096 Dec 31 23:01 Linux Magazine
drwxr-xr-x 2 shashwat shashwat     70 Apr 17 22:52 Linux Presentation
drwxrwxrwx 2 shashwat shashwat      6 Apr 15 19:30 Misc Screenshots
drwxrwxr-x 5 shashwat shashwat     54 Dec 24 10:52 Muktware
drwxrwxrwx 5 shashwat shashwat   4096 May  3  2010 Other Reviews⁄Tutorials
-rw-rw-rw- 1 shashwat shashwat  12816 Jan 18  2010 Query.odt
drwxrwxrwx 2 shashwat shashwat    133 Jan 23  2010 Scans
-rw-rw-rw- 1 shashwat shashwat 125522 Sep  9  2009 Screenshot.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 shashwat shashwat   4096 Jun  4  2010 TE Review
drwxr-xr-x 2 shashwat shashwat     28 May 17 06:04 Ubunutu User Magazine
[root@myhost ~]# 

I even tried copying the contents to a different location but same result.

What to do ?

Regards

Last edited by Shashwat (2011-06-06 09:38:26)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [SOLVED] Peculiar behavior of Nautilus

What's the output of

lsattr

Also, do

chmod -R 755 *

on the directory.

Shashwat

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From: India

Registered: 2011-05-08

Posts: 101

Re: [SOLVED] Peculiar behavior of Nautilus

[root@myhost ~]# lsattr /media/hd3/Articles\ \&\ Reviews/
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Other Reviews⁄Tutorials
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Scans
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/LFY Suggestions
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Linux Magazine
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/LFY Artwork
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/LFY Reviews
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Screenshot.png
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/TE Review
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Query.odt
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Muktware
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/COU
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Misc Screenshots
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Linux Presentation
--------------- /media/hd3/Articles & Reviews/Ubunutu User Magazine

No attributes ! Strange. Haven't used chattr much let me give that a try.

Edit : Wow chmod -R 755 worked . Strange chmod a+rwx didn't worked :?

Last edited by Shashwat (2011-06-06 09:37:29)