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Applications / SeaMonkey downloads and Unix permissions
« on: January 08, 2022, 03:10:56 pm »
Hi everyone,
When downloading files using SeaMonkey 2.42.9esr, the downloaded files are always marked like these are when running 'ls -l':
[D:\junk\dl]ls -l
total 55308
-rw------- 1 root root 28717328 Jan 5 22:26 Bluegriffon_1-1-1r2.zip
-rw------- 1 root root 3688568 Jan 7 15:49 CUSeeMe2_1-9c.zip
-rw------- 1 root root 27946 Jan 8 08:23 ndpsmb-3.7.3-samba411-20220108.zip
showing they can be read and written by the owner (root) only. Not a big deal in OS/2, because it pays no attention to these permissions anyway. But things get 'interesting' when you copy these files to a SAMBA server, because it DOES pay attention to these, and so from OS/2 if you try to move, copy, rename, open, or execute one of these files on the server, it doesn't work!
Is there a setting in SeaMonkey that can change this? Or in OS/2? Why is SeaMonkey doing this? Up to now, I just do a 'chmod 777' on the files before copying them to the server, but would really like to not have to do that. Looking for some enlightenment here...
Regards,
When downloading files using SeaMonkey 2.42.9esr, the downloaded files are always marked like these are when running 'ls -l':
[D:\junk\dl]ls -l
total 55308
-rw------- 1 root root 28717328 Jan 5 22:26 Bluegriffon_1-1-1r2.zip
-rw------- 1 root root 3688568 Jan 7 15:49 CUSeeMe2_1-9c.zip
-rw------- 1 root root 27946 Jan 8 08:23 ndpsmb-3.7.3-samba411-20220108.zip
showing they can be read and written by the owner (root) only. Not a big deal in OS/2, because it pays no attention to these permissions anyway. But things get 'interesting' when you copy these files to a SAMBA server, because it DOES pay attention to these, and so from OS/2 if you try to move, copy, rename, open, or execute one of these files on the server, it doesn't work!
Is there a setting in SeaMonkey that can change this? Or in OS/2? Why is SeaMonkey doing this? Up to now, I just do a 'chmod 777' on the files before copying them to the server, but would really like to not have to do that. Looking for some enlightenment here...
Regards,