On Saturday, December 11, 2010 02:55:47 am Basil Chupin wrote:
I came across a file in her /home directory which showed up as named "!gfs" or "!gvs" or something similar.
As root I could not access it nor delete it: "Access denied" (it had zero bytes for size, anyway).
It is link to /home/user/.gvfs directory. Look on the web for "root can't delete gvfs". It is gvfs-fuse mount point that can access only user of that file system. The reason is privacy and you can imagine that is design decision, not a bug, but in any case it is something that acts contrary to common sense in Unix, where system admin can access any point of computer. Is it good or not, I can't say. It puts user above system admin for some stuff, which is IMHO, no a good idea. On the other hand, it protects user stuff from bad sysadmins that would like to peek where they should not. When first time appeared many considered that as a bug, like in this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/225361 I use KDE and I have it. I'm not sure is the reason few GTk applications I use, or something else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gvfs -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org