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thunar package

Thunar sets wrong permissions for new files and directories (666, 777)

Bug #391969 reported by stitch
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Thunar File Manager
Unknown
Unknown
thunar (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Lionel Le Folgoc

Bug Description

Ubuntu Jaunty: When creating a new directory with thunar the first time during an X session, the permission is 755. But if the second directory is created, its permission is 777 and now, file permissions for new files are 666. Using a terminal, the expected permissions (755 and 644) are used. Starting thunar from the terminal does not solve the problem.

stitch (grubert-physik)
visibility: private → public
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

This is confirmed on Karmic. Steps to reproduce:

1. create a toplevel directory under $HOME (eg 'foo')
2. create a file in the 'foo' directory
$ ls -ld /home/jamie/foo/ /home/jamie/foo/bar
drwxrwxrwx 2 jamie jamie 4096 2009-06-26 10:06 /home/jamie/foo/
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jamie jamie 0 2009-06-26 10:06 /home/jamie/foo/bar
$ umask
0022

At the very least, thunar should honor umask.

Changed in thunar (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Urs Fleisch (ufleisch) wrote :

There is a patch in the source packet, debian/patches/03_thunar-vfs-apply-umask-properly.patch, which changes

if (!_thunar_vfs_io_ops_mkdir (lp->data, 0755, THUNAR_VFS_IO_OPS_NONE, error))

to

if (!_thunar_vfs_io_ops_mkdir (lp->data, 0777 & ~umask(0), THUNAR_VFS_IO_OPS_NONE, error))

But this does not really apply umask properly, because the call to umask(0) will set the umask to 0 and return the old umask. mkdir() already respects the umask (see "man 2 umask" and "man 2 mkdir"). The correct line would probably be:

if (!_thunar_vfs_io_ops_mkdir (lp->data, 0777, THUNAR_VFS_IO_OPS_NONE, error))

This is also in the patch at http://bugs.gentoo.org/275516

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:

Changed in thunar (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5376

Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Changed in thunar (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package thunar - 1.0.1-1ubuntu2

---------------
thunar (1.0.1-1ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/xubuntu-fix-desktop-files.patch: updated to hide Bulk Rename
    from the menu. LP: #441278
  * debian/patches/04_fix-umask-handling.patch: fix wrong permissions for new
    files and folders. LP: #391969

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:45:53 +0200

Changed in thunar (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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