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Bug 354394 - Undeletable files and folders allowed into the bin
Undeletable files and folders allowed into the bin
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108307
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Trash
2.17.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 352666
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-05 07:24 UTC by Christian Kirbach
Modified: 2007-11-24 18:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Christian Kirbach 2006-09-05 07:24:31 UTC 
You are allowed to delete folders that contain files you cannot remove, however in case you are permitted to move the entire folder. This results in error messages when you are finally erasing your bin contents, i.e. trying to erase the files you are not allowed to erase.

the ls -l permissions of such a folder may look like

drwxrwxrwx 8   otheruser users  664 2006-09-05 08:56 evolution-exchange-2.6.1

this folder contains files belonging to root.
Comment 1 Teppo Turtiainen 2007-01-19 20:45:18 UTC 
Bugs 352666 and 378615 are related to this one and could possibly also be solved by not allowing undeletable files in the Trash.
Comment 2 Christian Kirbach 2007-01-19 23:28:45 UTC 
Bug 339596 is also very similar

retitling so this can be the common bases for those

Basically, files and folders with wrong permissions may end up in the bin. When purging the bin this fails because of missing permissions to erase the items of question:

* (sub)folders or files (in subfolders) that the user lacks write permissions for
* (sub)folders or files (in subfolders) that belong to other users
Comment 3 Duncan Lithgow 2007-03-08 20:38:11 UTC 
There is also a bug about the lack of notification when this happens. See bug #339596
Comment 4 Teppo Turtiainen 2007-11-24 18:02:17 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108307 ***