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chmod ???? bug?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18937: closed (chmod ???? bug?)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:14:02 +0000

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From: Plato <platoxw <at> wishmail.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: chmod ???? bug?
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:26:25 +0100

Hello,

After using chmod
	chmod -R 644 /media/plato/mountedpartition/	(I see I forgot the * at the end)
my
	ls -l
listing has all entry's like these:
	First a list like this of every file and folder
		ls: cannot access /media/plato/mountedpartition/justafiile.txt: Permission denied
	Then one time
		total 0
	Folowed by
		-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? justafile.txt
		d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? Files
	One example of a file and one of a directory

If I do
	ls Files
I get
	ls: cannot access /media/plato/mountedpartition/Files: Permission denied
When I do
	sudo ls Files
I get a listing of the contents of files as expected.

Is this a bug?
It was not my intention to get this. I do not know how to get it back to what it was.
I tried it on a single file with
	chmod 644 justafile.txt
but that did not solve it. Any ideas?

Thanks for maintaining chmod
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With kind regards,

Plato

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Plato <platoxw <at> wishmail.net>, 18937-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18937: chmod ???? bug?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:13:08 -0800

On 11/03/2014 10:26 AM, Plato wrote:
> chmod -R 644/media/plato/mountedpartition/

The behavior you observe is what I'd expect once the permissions on 
directories are messed up. To fix it, try "chmod -R 
+X/media/plato/mountedpartition/" as root.

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