chmod and chown recursion (sudo)

[Thufir Hawat]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:54:34 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> Since it looks like the tree is on your desktop, it should be owned by
> you.  If you unpack a tar file with sudo the ownerships of the files
> will be set to whatever is set in the tar archive.

Unfortunately, this isn't the case :(

>From what I see, the download has odd permissions and ownership which 
I've not yet fixed.


thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 thufir thufir 4096 2011-03-15 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 80 thufir thufir 4096 2011-03-15 08:56 ../
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ wget http://apress.com/resource/bookfile/4045
--2011-03-15 09:53:22--  http://apress.com/resource/bookfile/4045
Resolving apress.com... 66.211.109.45
Connecting to apress.com|66.211.109.45|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14451 (14K) [application/pdf]
Saving to: `4045'

100%[======================================>] 14,451      --.-K/s   in 
0.1s    

2011-03-15 09:53:22 (117 KB/s) - `4045' saved [14451/14451]

thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  2 thufir thufir  4096 2011-03-15 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 80 thufir thufir  4096 2011-03-15 08:56 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 thufir thufir 14451 2011-03-15 09:53 4045
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ tar -xf 4045
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ ll
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  3 thufir thufir  4096 2011-03-15 09:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 80 thufir thufir  4096 2011-03-15 08:56 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 thufir thufir 14451 2011-03-15 09:53 4045
d---------  5 thufir thufir  4096 2008-06-22 06:15 FaceletsEssentials/
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ ll FaceletsEssentials/
ls: cannot open directory FaceletsEssentials/: Permission denied
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ sudo chmod -R ugo+rw  FaceletsEssentials
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ sudo chown thufir:thufir -R  
FaceletsEssentials
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ ll FaceletsEssentials/
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/tagReferenceAndComposite: Permission 
denied
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/..: Permission denied
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/custom: Permission denied
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/README.txt: Permission denied
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/.: Permission denied
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/pom.xml: Permission denied
ls: cannot access FaceletsEssentials/creatingAnApp: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? ./
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? ../
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? creatingAnApp/
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? custom/
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? pom.xml
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? README.txt
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? tagReferenceAndComposite/
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ nl FaceletsEssentials/pom.xml 
nl: FaceletsEssentials/pom.xml: Permission denied
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Downloads$ 



thanks,

Thufir