[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:52:11 +0100, luxxius <luxxius at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I forgot to add this further info:
> 
> I cannot access the music folder or its subfolders and files unless I
> become root (sudo su).  I can then see the folders and files.  This is
> the output of stat on the top level folder:
> 
> root at diana-desktop:/home/diana# stat music
>     File: `music'
>     Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 807h/2055d      Inode: 16122206    Links: 69
> Access: (0664/drw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   diana)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2007-06-07 10:26:00.000000000 +0100
> Modify: 2007-05-22 15:42:32.000000000 +0100
> Change: 2007-06-07 08:46:51.000000000 +0100
> 
> I'd be glad of advice about recovering access to the folder tree and
> files, as I'm fearful of making matters worse!

Is there a reason why the group needs to be root?

if you change the group to "diana" or "users", does that make a difference (it think it might...)

Cheers,

Matt.
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