In all of these remote storage situations the host where the storage
resides overrides everything else. Root on a client box is no different
than any other user on the client box, they have whatever permissions that
the storage host gives them or allows them to change and no more. That
implies that the first place to look for this kind of problem is on the
host where the files reside, so that is the first thing I thought.
There are more issues in the difference between Windows or cifs and Linux
permission and authority styles, they rarely translate well.
When I build a Nas box I usually the Linux operating system and export the
storage multiple ways, one of those being shamba.
I am not sure if that helps, but it gives you another approach.
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> 1. How to force permission change? (Fred)
> 2. Re: How to force permission change? (Manfred Wassmann)
> 3. Re: How to force permission change? (Rob)
> 4. Re: How to force permission change? (Fred)
> 5. Re: How to force permission change? (Fred)
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> From: Fred <fred@???>
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:52:29 -0700
> Subject: [DNG] How to force permission change?
> Hello,
>
> I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that prevent
> access to them. They can't be read by xpdf or others.
>
> root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17 2009
> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>
> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> Permission denied
>
> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664 /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> chmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> Permission denied
>
> How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Manfred Wassmann <berlinsight@???>
> To: Devuan ML <dng@???>
> Cc:
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:06:28 +0000
> Subject: Re: [DNG] How to force permission change?
> you may have an attribute (immutable) set. Try 'man chattr'. HTH
>
> On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Fred <fred@???> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that prevent
>> access to them. They can't be read by xpdf or others.
>>
>> root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>> -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17 2009
>> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>>
>> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>> chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
>> Permission denied
>>
>> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664 /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>> chmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
>> Permission denied
>>
>> How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Fred
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> To: "dng@???" <dng@???>
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:33:36 +0000
> Subject: Re: [DNG] How to force permission change?
>
>
>
>
> Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 at 14:52, Fred <fred@???> wrote:
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that prevent
> > access to them. They can't be read by xpdf or others.
> >
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> > -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17 2009
> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> > chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> > Permission denied
> >
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664 /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> > chmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> > Permission denied
> >
> > How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Fred
>
> Does the dns321 disk have a vfat file system?
>
> rob
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Fred <fred@???>
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:02:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: [DNG] How to force permission change?
> On 10/24/23 07:33, Rob via Dng wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.
> >
> >
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 at 14:52, Fred <fred@???> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that prevent
> >> access to them. They can't be read by xpdf or others.
> >>
> >> root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >> -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17 2009
> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >>
> >> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >> chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> >> Permission denied
> >>
> >> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664 /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >> chmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> >> Permission denied
> >>
> >> How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Fred
> >
> > Does the dns321 disk have a vfat file system?
> >
> > rob
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> It is cifs accessed by samba.
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:06:10 -0700
> Subject: Re: [DNG] How to force permission change?
> On 10/24/23 07:06, Manfred Wassmann via Dng wrote:
> > you may have an attribute (immutable) set. Try 'man chattr'. HTH
> >
> > On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Fred <fred@???
> > <mailto:fred@blakemfg.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that
> > prevent access to them. They can't be read by xpdf or others.
> >
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> > -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17 2009
> > /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred
> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> > chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
> > Permission denied
> >
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664
> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> > chmod: changing permissions of
> > '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf': Permission denied
> >
> > How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Fred
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> Hi,
>
> I tried chattr -i /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> I received permission denied. It doesn't appear to me the other chattr
> options apply.
>
> lsattr by root also gives permission denied.
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
>
>
>
>
>
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> From: Steve Litt <slitt@???>
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:25:31 -0400
> Subject: Re: [DNG] How to force permission change?
> Fred said on Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:02:56 -0700
>
> >On 10/24/23 07:33, Rob via Dng wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.
> >>
> >>
> >> ------- Original Message -------
> >> On Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 at 14:52, Fred <fred@???>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that
> >>> prevent access to them. They can't be read by xpdf or others.
> >>>
> >>> root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >>> -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17 2009
> >>> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
> >>>
> >>> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred
> >>> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf chown: changing ownership of
> >>> '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf': Permission denied
> >>>
> >>> root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664
> >>> /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf chmod: changing permissions of
> >>> '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf': Permission denied
> >>>
> >>> How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Fred
> >>
> >> Does the dns321 disk have a vfat file system?
> >>
> >> rob
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> >It is cifs accessed by samba.
>
> It's been 23 years since I wrote Samba Unleashed and I've forgotten
> most of it, but as I remember, whatever is revealed by a Samba
> connection must be on a filesystem of some kind. So forgetting Samba,
> if this thing was formatted for Windows you can't give things owners or
> permissions. You need something like ext4 for that. Then you can mount
> the ext4 via Samba using the cifs protocol.
>
> SteveT
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