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File Permission Dialog doesn't allow set of owner
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Severity:
enhancement

Comments

Description Cory Christison 2006-12-23 22:32:28 CET
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061212 Firefox/1.5.0.8
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You should be allowed to set the owner in the file permissions dialog.
Currently you cannot do it via Thunar and have to resort to command line, eg:
'sudo chown -R username:group /some/path'
The way that Konqueror's setup is ideal, but does not need to be completely replicated.
Discussion on thunar-dev mailing list:
http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/2006-December/003602.html


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a file or folder
2. Select the "Permissions" tab

Actual Results:  
No option to set an owner

Expected Results:  
Should be able to set owner.

Although it should only be allowed to via root user and using Thunar, perhaps there could be a prompt for root password if trying to set a user that is not yourself?
Comment 1 Vincent 2006-12-24 09:11:34 CET
Perhaps have on check box each for "Write", "Read and "Execute" for Owner, Group and Others, I don't think that would take up too much space.
Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-12-24 09:28:44 CET
(In reply to comment #1)
> Perhaps have on check box each for "Write", "Read and "Execute" for Owner,
> Group and Others, I don't think that would take up too much space.

No, we're not going to mess up the GUI. Use Konqueror/Nautilus if you want a messy user interface.
Comment 3 Lionel Le Folgoc 2011-03-29 19:46:55 CEST
*** Bug 4013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Lionel Le Folgoc 2011-03-29 19:47:33 CEST
*** Bug 4121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Lionel Le Folgoc 2011-03-29 19:50:17 CEST
*** Bug 4346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 jEsuSdA 2011-08-25 08:28:28 CEST
I think adding a owner field is not messing up the GUI.
I think is a nice idea allow change owner.

Thanks for your work! nice project!
Comment 7 Gabared 2012-09-30 10:32:59 CEST
A drop down list of available users instead of the static text with the name of actual owner and a checkbox for setting the premissions (and the owner) recursively would be nice...
Oh... and maybe a 'Cancel' button...
Comment 8 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-04-17 19:03:53 CEST
*** Bug 8696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 23:05:06 CEST
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Bug #2681

Reported by:
Cory Christison
Reported on: 2006-12-23
Last modified on: 2020-05-26
Duplicates (4):
  • 4013 crippled chmod and chown
  • 4121 Thunar needs an advanced permissions dialog
  • 4346 Thunar and chmod
  • 8696 Changing permissions on not own files

People

Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
6 users

Version

Version:
0.5.0rc2

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