[PLUG] Nautilus sees files, but cp does not

[Dale Snell]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:04:45 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> That is very interesting. Indeed, all the files in ~/ on my Jaunty
> disk are 1000:1000, and everything in ~/ on my new Fedora disk are
> 500:500.

Ah, yes.  This has bit me once or twice, but since I'm pretty much a
Fedora guy, I'd forgotten it.  Happily, you've gotten the problem
fixed.

> A more interesting question is why a few of the files on the Jaunty
> disk are -rw-------, while most are -rw-r--r---. All the files in ~/
> on the Jaunty disk were placed there by me, not operating as root.
> For example, the three files that I cited at the start of this thread
> are PDF files that I downloaded from the web page for the Applied
> Linguistics Department at PSU over the course of a couple of years. I
> am the one who downloaded them, not root. And there are many more
> such files in ~/ on the Jaunty disk that are also -rw-------. Why? 

Perhaps you used a different application to download those files?
Other than that, I have no idea.  In any event, having a file with
permissions of -rw------- doesn't mean that root downloaded the
file.  It just means that only the file owner can read or write it.  My
own preference for most files is to make them -rw-r-----.  Since there
are no other users on my system, who cares if my files aren't world
readable?  Closing off group permissions, as Jaunty seems to have done, 
just makes the files a bit more secure, is all.  Honestly, I wouldn't
worry about it.

--Dale

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