[Tfug] Bizarre permissions situation...

[Jim March]

OK...can you say that one more time in English?  Or something close to it?

:)

Jim

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> The parent has too restrictive of permissions
>
> sudo chmod 777 /media
>
> may be extreme but illustrates  the issue
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Y'all will love this one.
>>
>> I'm running Karmic 64bit on my Dell lappy.  I got ahold of a new ("to
>> me") MP3 player, a Sandisk E260.  Has 4gigs of flash formatted FAT32.
>>
>> In order to mount it I have to do a terminal number:
>>
>> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
>>
>> OK...but then I don't have permissions for it as a regular user.
>>
>> No problem, I do "gksudo nautilus" and try and reset
>> permissions/ownership for /media/disk...it won't let me.  Huh?
>> Arright, so assuming Nautilus has lost it's mind, I try the same with
>> Thunar.  No joy there either - even running it as "god" it won't reset
>> permissions.  It WILL let me read from and write to the device using
>> GUI tools under gksudo...just won't let me reset permissions.
>>
>> So figuring my GUI has gone kerpooey somehow, I jump to the terminal,
>> and get this:
>>
>> ---
>> jim at thecritter:/media$ chown jim /media/disk
>> chown: changing ownership of `/media/disk': Operation not permitted
>> jim at thecritter:/media$ sudo chown jim /media/disk
>> [sudo] password for jim:
>> chown: changing ownership of `/media/disk': Operation not permitted
>> jim at thecritter:
>> ---
>>
>> What...the...hell?  It's as if I don't have root access anymore.
>>
>> Except...I do!  I can do "sudo nautilus" and drop a blank test file
>> into places like /bin I normally don't have access to...then go in
>> normally, try and delete, permission failure.  So sudo/gksudo are
>> *working*...just not on this flash device.
>>
>> Whaaaaaaaa!
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Seriously, WTF?
>>
>> Jim
>>
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