<div>you could allways just use a terminal to do it...</div>
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<div>brandon</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Has anyone had a look at the options you get for setting file<br>permissions in FC6's Nautilus? No longer you can tick on or off read,
<br>write, or execute permissions individually for user, group, and others.<br><br>You get a drop-down for owner read-only or read/write, a drop-down for<br>group none, read-only or read/write, likewise for others. But only one
<br>tick box that lets everybody or nobody execute the file? It seems<br>stupid, in the extreme, to be able to end up setting something with file<br>permissions like: rwx --x --x<br><br>The addition of some SELinux options is welcome, but the two choices are
<br>quite lame: user or temporary data, nothing else is offered.<br><br>The properties dialogue doesn't make any contextual changes for when<br>you're playing with directories instead of files. The executable toggle
<br>is still labelled "allow executing file as program".<br><br>If this is aimed as less techno-savvy users, it's going to be confusing.<br>And for those who know about permissions, the thing is seriously<br>
unhelpful.<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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