Copy files using GUI, chown as different user?

[feenster99]

Hi all
I'm trying to set something up for a colleague who doesn't know their way around the terminal (and doesn't want/need to learn). I need them to be able to plug a USB drive into the machine, running Ubuntu 6.10, and copy files into a directory using a GUI. Nothing difficult here, except that the files need to be chown'ed by a user that isn't the one they logged in as, and isn't root.

I was hoping i could do

gksudo -u otheruser nautilus /storage/

to open a Nautilus window as that user. It doesn't seem to work however.

Are there any other options? Could I mount the folder somewhere and force it to chown all files/folders as otheruser?

Cheers,
Matt

 

[feenster99]

Ah, guess i've misunderstood gksu. Thought it would auto-chown the files as that user.

I have tried to make a script, but it seems like a long winded way to do something that should be quite easy.

Would mounting the folder with right options have any effect on the files copied into it?

Matt

PS., the data is from an NTFS partition on a USB hard drive. The actual permissions don't matter a jot, as long as the files are owned and grouped by a certain user. This is required so a piece of software can locate relevant files - I have no control over this process

 

[feenster99]

Well, the process is this:

1) Data is brought in on a USB HDD

2) It is loaded onto our Server, by copying it into a folder relevant to it's source (e.g., Accounts dept.)

3) It has to be chown'ed/chgrp'ed by one particular user for a piece of data management software to work

4) Once the ownership is set properly, the software can run away quite happily


The above has to take place within about 2 hours max for the software to function correctly. There is currently around 750GB of data on the Server (mainly in sub 512K files), so chown'ing the files on schedule may take too long. I suppose i could run a script that looked for files that didn't have the right permission, and only chown them - would that be any quicker i wonder?

Matt