[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
Thu Jun 7 11:01:42 BST 2007
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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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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