.gvfs and why does this happen?

[Jay Ridgley]

Folks,

I have a situation that I do not understand. I am connected to a remote 
system via ssh. When I try to list the directory /home/user/.gvfs the 
results are not consistent. See below:

cdjsys at ursa:~$ ls -la .gvfs
total 8
drwx------  2 cdjsys cdjsys 4096 2008-06-07 07:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 cdjsys cdjsys 4096 2009-07-29 10:22 ..
cdjsys at ursa:~$ ls -la /home/celeste/.gvfs
ls: cannot access /home/celeste/.gvfs: Permission denied
cdjsys at ursa:~$ sudo ls -la /home/celeste/.gvfs
[sudo] password for cdjsys:
ls: cannot access /home/celeste/.gvfs: Permission denied <---- error
cdjsys at ursa:~$ su celeste
Password:
celeste at ursa:/home/cdjsys$ ls -la /home/celeste/.gvfs
total 4
dr-x------  2 celeste celeste    0 2009-07-29 10:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 celeste celeste 4096 2009-07-29 10:24 ..
celeste at ursa:/home/cdjsys$  exit
exit
cdjsys at ursa:~$

Yet If I am physically logged on to the machine (not via ssh) the error 
message is not issued. This is causing problems with a network backup 
scheme I am attempting to implement.

What is the cause and is there a fix?

Regards,
Jay
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Jay Ridgley
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