[Abandoned] Setting permissions for folder contents.

[Hopestation]

Hi.

I am using Mint_17.3.

Using Nemo as root I have copied a folder from a USB stick to /vaw/www/html. When I look at the folder's Properties/permissions it is owned by root.
I change the Owner to myself, set File Access to Read & Write and click the Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files button and click the Close button.

When I recheck the folder's permissions its Owner is now me.

Now I check the permissions of any of the enclosed files and their Owner is still root.

What is going wrong?

[catweazel]

What is going wrong?

Code: Select all

man chown
[...]
-R, --recursive

man chmod
[...]
-R, --recursive

[Hopestation]

Hi Catweazel.

Thanks for your reply, but I can't see how it explains why a standard Mint form doesn't do what it say's on the button.

Should it apply the changes I made in the boxes to all enclosed files?

If it shouldn't, what's it there for?

[Flemur]

Thanks for your reply, but I can't see how it explains why a standard Mint form doesn't do what it say's on the button.

Apparently it's been a bug for about 10 years.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/547
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/165113

[gm10]

Thanks for your reply, but I can't see how it explains why a standard Mint form doesn't do what it say's on the button.

Actually it does exactly what it says on the button. The button says (emphasis mine): "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files".

There is no button to recursively change ownership (without a doubt there should be one, but there isn't). If you're using MATE/caja, then you can add a custom action for this using the caja-actions plugin, I have one to "Take Ownership" of whatever I point it at. For Cinnamon/nemo I believe you'd have to write an extension.

[Hopestation]

Thanks for your answers.