[Thunar-dev] File Permissions dialog

Erlend Davidson E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk
Sun Dec 24 13:23:04 CET 2006



Harold Aling wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>> Cory Christison wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>     New to the list but have been following and using Thunar for a 
>>> while. The only problem I have ever had is the File Permissions Dialog:
>>>
>>>     * You cannot set the owner
>>>
>>>     
>> Yeah - I've found this annoying too.  Somebody mentioned having the 
>> numeric bitmask permissions - I think this would be a good idea too 
>> (there is room for it at the bottom of the dialog), it might be useful 
>> for checking how permissions relate to a particular bitmask.
>>   
> It might also be cool to see all users/groups with their associated 
> rights for that file/folder.
>
> "User 'Harold' can delete, modify and write to this folder"
> "Group 'Users' can modify this folder"
> etc...
It already does that doesn't it?  In the Permissions tab:

Owner: user_name
Access: Read & Write

Group: users
Access: None

Others: None



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