[Tfug] Bizarre permissions problem

[Jude Nelson]

Hey Jim,

Try this command:
sudo chmod -R 666 /home/jim/.gvfs && sudo chown -R jim.jim /home/jim/.gvfs

Regards,
Jude


On 6/12/08, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm upgrading laptops and moved /home/jim to the new machine.
>
> I now have a situation where /home/jim/.gvfs is owned by "jim" but with
> access rights only - and root user has no permissions.
>
> So in trying to make sure I own all of /home/jim, a command like:
>
> jim at critter:/home$ sudo chown -R jim /home/jim
> chown: cannot access `/home/jim/.gvfs': Permission denied
>
> If I look at permissions for that directory in Nautilus, I see that I have
> read-only access.  If I do "sudo nautilus" to look at the situation as root,
> I can't even see /home/jim/.gvfs
>
> And that apparently is blocking me from resetting permissions on my home
> directory on a global, recursive basis.
>
> How do I gain back write-access to .gvfs?
>
> Jim
>