[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Bob Kline]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, <peyeps at iserv.net> wrote:

> Well, for what it is worth,
>
> I noticed on an earlier post you had the following:
>
> Before mounting:
>
> # file: disk2
> # owner: me
> # group: me
> user::rwx
> group:: r-x
> other::r-x
>
> After mounting:
>
> # file: disk2
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rwx
> group::r-x
> other::r-w
>
> Now, I am not sure if your other::r-w is a typo and should have been r-x
> or if in fact other does not have execute access to the volume.
>
> For purposes of testing, I have two different users with different
> ownerships and groups to a directory, running Ubuntu 6.06.  When I grant
> read permission to a directory by one user for world access, the second
> user can see files, but when that user attempts to open the file, nothing
> happens.  However when I grant execute permission to that directory at the
> world level, Firefox can now open the file.  So it appears Firefox, for
> some reason wants execute permissions.  (Firefox 2.0)
>
>

My apologies.  The "w" was a typo, and
was actually an "x".  I just verified that.

Sorry for the waste of time.

    -- Bob
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