I am attempting to use konqueror to navigate and reset permissions for team group folders. I am logged into our RHEL 5.5 server via SSH as a sudoer user with my NetID. Xming is running in the background. I am loading Konqueror 3.5.4-24.el5 Red Hat (Using KDE 3.5.4-26.el5_7.1 Red Hat) by typing "sudo konqueror" from the SSH terminal. At the prompt I enter my password to allow konqueror to load with sudo privileges. I navigate to a folder /storage in which I have a subfolder /storage/foldername. I right click on "foldername" and select properties and click on the Permissions tab. On the permissions dialogue window the bottom checkbox remains unavailable even though I opened konqueror using sudo. Is there a way to set my user to have the privilege of applying the permissions recursively using konqueror? See attached screen shot. Thanks in advance.




yes, I know how to manage permissions recursively from the command line with -R, this posting is inquiring about the GUI functionality only.

As the dialog shows, it seems that the folder is using Advanced Permissions. You need to manage permissions through the Advanced Permissions dialog, available by selecting the Advanced Permissions item in that dialog.

@bcooksley. While I appreciate that you took the time to reply. Your response does not answer the question. The problem, as stated, is the "Apply changes to all subfolders and their contents" is greyed out. This checkbox seems necessary to apply the ACL to all subfolders. It works as ROOT but not if i am a SUDOER. Any ideas?
Thank you kindly.

As far as I am aware, Konqueror (in the 3.5 series at least) was not capable of using sudo by itself to gain the needed privileges to alter permissions/etc as another user. The only way to do that is by launching Konqueror as the user in question (ie. root)

If that is the case, are there any other GUI utilities that can be used to manage directory ACL?

Unfortunately i'm not aware of any, and a quick Google search didn't turn up much either.

On my KDE 4.8 Trunk system, the checkbox is not greyed out - so this is either something specific to your system - or a bug that has since been fixed. If you can, try updating to KDE 3.5.10.