On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 19:36, Jackson Pfeffer <crazykidjack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I’m running all of this in a Manjaro Linux (Arch) virtual machine which uses and Ext4 filesystem0. I’m not aware of any deviation from standard POSIX permissions. > > > > With that said.. I was running as root (I know… probably dumb… I just happened to be doing other things that do actually require root at the same time and I didn’t want to switch between users and stuff…). Ah yes, that explains it. > Anyways, could running as root cause the problem since root can probably do whatever it wants? I’m not sure exactly what file permission error it was expecting, but I could see that being an issue Right. The superuser can always access a directory even if it has mode 000.
