Re: [Vala] GIO run as root Fail

[Edwin De La Cruz <edwinspire gmail com>]

2017-08-18 12:21 GMT-05:00 Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>:
> > On Friday, August 18, 2017, 4:39:33 PM GMT+1, Edwin De La Cruz
> > <edwinspire gmail com> wrote:
>
> > var directory = File.new_for_uri("ftp://ftp.gnu.org/";);
>
> The program works fine as both a normal user and root if the file://
> protocol is used, e.g.
>
> var directory = File.new_for_uri("file:///home/al/");
>
> GVFS is used for each protocol and the following commands work
> fine on the command line:
>
> gvfs-mount ftp://anonymous ftp gnu org/
> gvfs-ls ftp://anonymous ftp gnu org/
> gvfs-mount --unmount ftp://anonymous ftp gnu org/
>
> What I did find was that ftp.gnu.org does require the anonymous user.
> So I tried:
> var directory = File.new_for_uri("ftp://anonymous ftp gnu org/");
>
> That made no difference.
>
> It is the line:
>
> > var enumerator = directory.enumerate_children
> (FileAttribute.STANDARD_NAME, 0);
>
> that is returning the "Operation not supported" message.
>
> So I'm not sure what the problem is. I did note that as a normal user
> the program returns the message "The specified location is not mounted"
> Only as root is it saying the operation is not supported.
>
> I hope you figure it out,
>
> Al

It was definitely not possible to run as root. I had to run as a user
and it works as expected.
Thanks to everyone for your replies.


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