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Incorrect permissions when accessing an auto-mounted NTFS partition in nautilus.

Bug #41204 reported by Marshall Culpepper
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Nautilus
Confirmed
Low
nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I recently installed Dapper Drake from the installation CD (Flight 6 I think?) and immediately after did a dist-upgrade.

The setup procedure recognized my main NTFS partition and mounted it at /media/hda1. Unfortunately, whenever I try to browse my partition either through nautilus or command line, I receive a permission error.

Here is the screenshot:
http://www.arcaner.com/pictures/bugs/bad-permissions.png

Here is my /etc/fstab for reference:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Tags: ntfs-support
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Matthew Lange (matthewlange) wrote :

Hi!

Please take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountNtfsOnBoot?highlight=%28NTFS%29 and see if that helps you at all. There is a how-to on mounting and setting up the fstab file.

Thanks

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Marshall Culpepper (marshall-law) wrote :

I know how to set permissions correctly, in fact I've already done that. That is not the issue here.

Ubuntu is showing me an icon on my desktop for my NTFS partition, and by default I cannot open it because the permissions are root only! Fixing the permissions in /etc/fstab is easy enough for more experienced Linux users, but my bug report is here to highlight the fact that Ubuntu is giving the user a shortcut to a partition that is unaccesible. That, IMO is a bug.

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Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Can you browser the /media/hda1 from a command line? Is the bug with the fstab entry written by the installer or with nautilus which refuse to browse a drive which is browsable?

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Florent Mertens (givre) wrote :

This is not a nautilus issue.
With only "defaults" for option, an ntfs partition is mount with :
ro,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,dmask=077
making it unreadable by non-root user. So the permission error is normal.
The problem would be the way the installer set up the ntfs partition, but since edgy, it is set with nls=utf8,umask=0222, so this is no more an issue.
So i'm closing this one. Feel free to reopen it if you don't think it is fix.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
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