Thunar and chmod

[Erik Harrison]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Todd and Margo Chester
<ToddAndMargo at verizon.net> wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>>> Just curious: Why would one want to set permissions of a file/directory
>>>> to 766?
>>> When administering a samba server, if you have
>>>
>>>     map archive = yes
>>>     map system = yes
>>>     map hidden = yes
>>>
>>> set in your smb.conf, you map the Windows attributes
>>> to following chmod octets:
>>>
>>>      archive 0100
>>>      system  0010
>>>      hidden  0001
>>>
>>> "chmod 766" tells windows the file is "archive",
>>> "not system" and "not hidden".  It also allows
>>> you to use the files in Linux, depending on what you
>>> set smb.conf's "force user" and "force group" to.
>>
>> Aye, well that's not what Thunar is meant to do.
>
> hmmmmm.  Thunar is not a file manager?  Even Windows XP's
> "Explorer" can set attributes.

Yes but it can't, say, set reparse points. You need Group Policy
Editor if you want real control over permissions. It's also generally
the only game in town.

>
>
>> It's a really special
>> task (for a file manager meant to be used by people who do not care for
>> bits in inodes). But you can of course add a custom action that does the
>> "chmod 766".
>
> I did not know that. How do I do that?

Edit > Configure Custom Actions

Alternatively, am I imagining that there was some chatter a while back
about a advanced info pane plugin for Thunar? Or am I just thinking of
thunar-apr? If I am imagining it, maybe some enterprising developer
looking for something to do could put together a Thunar plugin
targetted at sysadmins, rather than at workstation users for just
these sorts of cases.

>
>>
>>> -T
>>
>> HTH,
>> Benedikt
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