Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[R. G. Newbury]

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> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:28 -0400
> From: Todd Denniston 
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> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 10/29/2008 07:04 PM:
> > (Does anyone else think .gvfs is a PITA?)

This problem got me a while ago, and discussed here.

The problem is the mount permissions/capabilities of the mount point. 
Try re-mounting with 'rw, exec, suid,' and you will probably find that 
'find' finds what you would like found (sorry!... Could not resist....).

mount with '-defaults' is quite restricted....even root cannot execute 
commands. You will have to dive into the depths of 'man find' to 
find....etc. etc.

Geoff

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:17 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:28 -0400
> > From: Todd Denniston 
> > Subject: Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
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> >    Fedora." 
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> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 10/29/2008 07:04 PM:
> > > (Does anyone else think .gvfs is a PITA?)
>
> This problem got me a while ago, and discussed here.
>
> The problem is the mount permissions/capabilities of the mount point. 
> Try re-mounting with 'rw, exec, suid,' and you will probably find that 
> 'find' finds what you would like found (sorry!... Could not resist....).
>
> mount with '-defaults' is quite restricted....even root cannot execute 
> commands. You will have to dive into the depths of 'man find' to 
> find....etc. etc.

Nice one. That seems to work.

poc

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Dave Burns]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, R. G. Newbury  wrote:
> >
>
> This problem got me a while ago, and discussed here.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg18051.html is
all I found, no help there.
> The problem is the mount permissions/capabilities of the mount point. Try
> re-mounting with 'rw, exec, suid,' and you will probably find that 'find'
> finds what you would like found (sorry!... Could not resist....).

So you're saying Rick is wrong - the callbacks are available to root,
but it can't execute them because of noexec or nosuid? I've gotten my
session in a weird state (.gvfs unmounted & I don't know how to
remount), so I can't test it until later. That again seems odd, since
user tburns has no problem executing 'find /users/tburns/.gvfs' but
root cannot do it.

I think I will probably just make a kludgey workaround - pipe error
messages to /dev/null - always fun.

Thanks to all.
Dave

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:34:01 -1000
Dave Burns  wrote:
> I think I will probably just make a kludgey workaround - pipe error
> messages to /dev/null - always fun.

My brother just sent me this email:

QUOTE:
My  problem (OK - maybe just one of my problems) is that I can't
figure out who/where/how it was decided to mount this filesystem...and
how to fix it (permanently).
As it is, the issue seems to come back when the machine reboots.
END OF QUOTE

Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is?  (Is there a
real solution?)

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Dave Burns]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Frank Cox  wrote:
> Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is?  (Is there a
> real solution?)

Yeah, is there any gnome setting that lets you turn gvfs off or make
it act reasonable?
Dave

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Dave Burns]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Dave Burns  wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Frank Cox  wrote:
> > Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is?  (Is there a
> > real solution?)
>
> Yeah, is there any gnome setting that lets you turn gvfs off or make
> it act reasonable?
> Dave

this is as close as I can find to a hint, but I can't make heads or
tails of the script. And why run it in a endless loop?

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg18051.html

Dave

OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Rick Stevens]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:34:01 -1000
> Dave Burns  wrote:
> > I think I will probably just make a kludgey workaround - pipe error
> > messages to /dev/null - always fun.
>
> My brother just sent me this email:
>
> QUOTE:
> My  problem (OK - maybe just one of my problems) is that I can't
> figure out who/where/how it was decided to mount this filesystem...and
> how to fix it (permanently).
> As it is, the issue seems to come back when the machine reboots.
> END OF QUOTE
>
> Does anyone know how this works and what the real solution is?  (Is there a
> real solution?)

It's part of the Gnome virtual file system and it should recur whenever
the user logs out and logs back in (I don't think a reboot has anything
to do with it).  I know of no "work around" for it.
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