chmod: permissions of a directory don't change

Asked Mar 06 '13 at 06:31

Active Mar 06 '13 at 07:33

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I have some issue with chmod:

    mis@hell:/var/www/blah$ sudo chmod g+w .git -v
    mode of `.git' changed from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0775 (rwxrwxr-x)
    mis@hell:/var/www/blah$ ls -la | grep git$
    drwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data   442 Mar  6 09:30 .git

It looks like chmod doesn't change permissions of a directory in fact (rwx vs r-x for group). Why?

asked Mar 06 '13 at 06:31

Misanthrope

Are you sure your filesystem is not mounted read only ? – Mostafa Shahverdy Mar 06 '13 at 07:05
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Is the file on a regular, local filesystem? In particular, isn't it remote or NTFS? – zwets Mar 06 '13 at 07:23
Oh, yes, it's remote FS. But it isn't write only, chmod works with files. $ grep www /etc/fstab www /var/www/ vboxsf rw,uid=33,gid=33 – Misanthrope Mar 06 '13 at 11:36
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The fact that it is a remote share is a detail which I'd say deserves mention in the question. Also, the same question has been answered before. – zwets Mar 06 '13 at 13:36

chmod: permissions of a directory don't change

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