arron, for clarification.. i was asking what i might have done, that could have changed things behind the scenes, such that the system no longer allowed for the creation/editing of files in dirs... i fully understand the permission structure... but the curious thing is that i didn't physically change anything, and i'm the only one with access to the machine. i had seen similar behavior on another box when the partition/inodes or something had gotten screwed up.. and the system went through some sort of process, where it corrected things... hope this is more information... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:15 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: unable to write/create new files using gnome editor.. On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:23:53PM -0700, bruce wrote: > update... > > i've verified that i did something.. but i'm not sure what... > > if i do a chmod -R 777 foo, then i can use gnome to edit/create files, as > this essentially is opening up the dir structure to everyone... which is not > the setup that was there initially... > > still not sure as to what changed, or what led to the change.... > > any pointers/thoughts??? > > -thanks > > -bruce > I am not sure what you are asking. If you have a directory with permissions 700 you can't created files in the dirctory unless you are its owner. Are yu asking whaqt is the minimum permissions on a directory that will allow non-owners of the directory to create files in the directory? ======================================================================= Someone is speaking well of you. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
