gwenview fails to display other users' files

Gentree

Hi,

I find gwenview to be a good image viewer in general but it won't display other users' files even though it has read permissions on the files and directories.

bekkra · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

The viewer itself behaves just like any other application that accesses files.

File and directory permissions set what you see.

You get a message when you try to navigate to a directory that you have insufficient privileges to ( like "/root" ) as a user.

The permissions in the example should be all right, but there's no information about the upstream permissions. Are you allowed to navigate to the directory at all with any other tool ? (Like bash

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Gentree · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:19 pm Post subject:

well bash was what I posted. Just to confirm this is with user prof:

paulbiz · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:49 am Post subject:

You can see the listing, but can you actually read the files?

Gentree · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:38 am Post subject:

No, as I posted it shows the directory as being empty . Subdirs are shown when they exist an I can navigate them but none of the content of the directories is shown.

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Nerevar · l33t Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 720

I think what paulbiz meant was can you read those files with a CLI utility as user prof? Like 'file /svn/img/*.JPG'?
If so, it's probably time to post 'emerge --info' and 'emerge -pv gwenview'.

bekkra · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

In fact, I've tried just this example and I found nothing strange.
With the permissions in the example, my installation behaved as it should.

Bring us the version information as Nerevar requested !
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Gentree · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: