Questions tagged [chown]
The chown command shell of a Unix-like operating system (such as GNU / Linux) is used to change the owner of a particular file.
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root cannot chown /mnt directory
I have a got a USB key with some directories on it. All files belong to root.
whoami
root
id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
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Messed up with /dev/tty* ownership
I was flashing a Flipper Zero Wifi Dev Board and I needed to have /dev/ttyACM0 owned by dialout group...
The thing is now I have tried to revert the stuff, making a chown root:tty /dev/tty*, and chmod ...
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Possible in Linux for root to take ownership of a running process without restarting it?
There is a process running under my personal login id that I want to run under root instead. This is only temporary for troubleshooting a problem with it. My login id has sudo privilege but is not ...
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Why is it possible to assign non-existent users as file owners via the "chown" command?
Why is it possible to assign non-existent users as file owners via the "chown" command?
To give you an example
sudo chown 03:03 ./test/f2
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 3 sys 0 nov 7 17:45 f2
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cygwin /usr/bin/install cannot change permissions
When I run /usr/bin/install, I get permissions errors:
bifrost ~ 857# groups
None Local account and member of Administrators group tsysadm Administrators Users NETWORK Authenticated Users This ...
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how to change user and group of a file inside the docker in gitlab-ci
I have a file which when I mount it to the docker, the user and group will change.
root@b2d3cb9b2aab:/# ls -lh /etc/logrotate.d/
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120 Sep 11 2021 alternatives
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Run script with root permission as normal user
Problem:
How can I run a script owned by root with root permission as normal user?
Let's take for example a folder /path/to/folder.
First I make sure that the folder and all content is owned by root:
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Change the ownership of all files & folders based on search result
I know how to find all the files & folders owned by a specific user, say tommy:
find / -user tommy
But how can I chown the files & folders to another user, say peter?
I know I can change ...
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What does it mean to chown a directory non-recursively?
You can do either chown $user $path or chown -R $user $path. What's the difference when $path is a directory?
The second invocation would also chown all files and directories inside $path recursively. ...
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Using sgid bit on specific executable files to filter their traffic with iptables
I'm trying to filter traffic with iptables for specific applications by their effective owner id (--gid-owner). For this purpose I've created a group
$ sudo addgroup net-user
, set this group on an ...
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Mistake - sudo chown -Rh not-root-user /
Well that. Made a terrible mistake on ubuntu server 18.04 (production server) and ran
chown -Rh some-not-root-user /
Now sudo is not working. Is there any way to reverse this?
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Is it safe to change ownership of several sub directories in /usr/local on MacOS Big Sur?
When trying to install some support for FORTRAN on my macBook running Big Sur and using brew I get an error that some /usr/local folders are not writeable and am asked to use chown to change ownership ...
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How do you set read-only in NFS without root privilege on Linux?
This seems like a relatively straightforward question, but I couldn't really find an answer to this on knowledge bases.
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I want to protect some files so they cannot be edited, deleted by other ...
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Recover Ubuntu file owners after improper use of chown
I made the mistake of changing the owner with the command
sudo chown -R userG: userG /
Now MySQL and other things not working, I try to repair but the ** sudo ** command does not work
Give this error
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chmod/chown/mkdir: Operation not permitted as root
I get Operation not permitted for root user on one server but not on the other "identical" server.
Running on Amazon Linux 1.
Server 1:
[root@preprod-1 ]# chown root:root /s3mnt/outliers/
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