Advanced chown bug ?

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Tue Sep 3 20:39:15 UTC 2002


Hello!

> I select them with the 'Insert' key and use the 'Advanced
> chown' option.
> 
> I'm root and set it to rwx r r fredlwm fredlwm.
> 
> "Set all"
> 
> All files are right, except
> 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 fredlwm  fredlwm        0 Aug 30 14:53 foo2

My guess is that you actually left "=" under the middle "w", so it was 
preserved.  I cannot not reproduce this problem if I actually unset the 
"w" for the group.

> Now I set it to rwx rx rx root root.
> 
> The same:
> 
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root     root           0 Aug 30 14:53 foo2

That would explain it too.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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