From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 19 19:11:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C81106566C for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-136.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-136.bluehost.com [67.222.39.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E8BD8FC17 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13433 invoked by uid 0); 19 Nov 2009 19:11:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2009 19:11:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=AW9qCDcmWx51ENBNYJA84eP2MmhHhXoymNl0Xxqlq0P7Zr72848k4exC2dhNDWBEGuzymeWpCdEAEREWcJfI1GaUqwKr5blCLJm3yR5IoMBa2HvbwnCEcUPXMWAfHW9I; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBCPz-00019m-HY; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:11:47 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:05:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:05:07 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: Thomas Adam Message-ID: <20091119190507.GA26507@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Adam , FreeBSD Questions References: <20091119070623.GB18533@guilt.hydra> <18071eea0911190022o6651d767l6cbbb5a14ac07166@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18071eea0911190022o6651d767l6cbbb5a14ac07166@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: GUI for file permissions management X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:48 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:22:17AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote: > 2009/11/19 Chad Perrin : > > Someone asked me recently whether a GUI for file permissions management >=20 > Anything like: mc, worker, rox, etc? Those are all filesystem browsers/managers -- right? I've already told the person who asked that many such applications have that kind of functionality. In my initial question to this list, I said: > > I know that some filesystem browser applications like Nautilus > > provide at least some of that kind of functionality, but wondered if > > there was a somewhat simple, stand-alone GUI that covered that kind > > of thing out there. Do you know if there's anything like *that* available, rather than an entire filesystem browser/manager application that just happens to also have a way to change permissions on files and directories? Also . . . do any of the applications you mentioned provide a way to manage things like umasks or home directory default permissions? In my original post to this list, I had also mentioned that sort of thing: > > login.conf or adduser.conf configuration =2E . . though I'm not holding my breath on that. I rather suspect managing umasks in login.conf and user directory default permissions in adduser.conf is not something anyone has bothered to incorporate in a GUI interface. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksFluMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWbNgCffOg6hzmmaB3+WQzWN8GH4iVs OVgAoK5ZQbplpoObNsL0pNp7Su9M5LSj =/0ZE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--