Bug#375054: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#375054: thunar: does not honour group privileges

[jw+debian at jameswestby.net (James Westby)]

tags 375054 upstream
forwarded 375054 http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1838
thanks metal man

On (23/06/06 02:45), Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> Package: thunar
> Version: 0.3.0beta1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I have a user which is member of the "users" group. Using "mv" and "rm"
> commands this user cat move or delete files in directories with rwx access
> for the group users. However the same user is not able to "cut", delete or
> rename the same files in the same directories using thunar.
> 
> Also: when checking the permissions of a file in thunar (right-click on the
> file, select "properties", select "permissions" button), the group is sometimes
> not displayed. 
> 
> For example: the groups "users", "staff" or "src" are never
> displayed, while "root" or other groups (which has corresponding users) are
> always displayed.
> 

This bug has already been reported upstream, see
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1838.

It looks like it will be fixed for beta 2.

Thanks,

James

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