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Change default permissions for new files and folders
Every time I create a new file or folder in Linux, it is accessible for r/w by myself, not the group. I want to change my system setting such that every new file or folder will be automatically ...
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Granting full rights on all files (owned by su) within certain directory
I got some trouble with a server situation, where i keep some configuration files in a sub-directory of a web project. Using my superuser account, i make changes to these files, which NetBeans commits ...
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Unable to retain any root created files and folders after warm reboot in linux
I installed and ran petalinux on zynq board. It runs perfectly fine and boot in around 3 seconds. To boot it this fast I had to do some configuration before compiling the source.
The problem that I ...
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Ubuntu file ownership issue
I've got a problem with my forum platform being unable to install modifications, as it complains the "Packages" directory isn't writeable. It's chmodded to 0777, so it's not a permission issue, but an ...
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chown: invalid user: ‘www–data:www-data’
I'm experiencing strage problem.
I simple need to give permissions www-data to a folder
chown -R www–data:www-data /somefolder
chown: invalid user: ‘www–data:www-data’
grep www-data /etc/passwd
www-...
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How should chmod and chown be used together?
I recently sold my mac, and before doing so I put its files on an external HDD. Now I'm using Linux to move those files to a larger HDD, but some folders still retained some residual mac permissions, ...
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Take control of all disks/filesystems automatically in linux (Kali)
I have two mac disks plugged into my Linux Kali and for the life of me I cannot get ownership of them. (LaCie)
I don't have this problem in Windows or Mac, I just copy the files. Drag and drop.
But ...
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Accidentally ran "chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /", how to repair?
I accidentally ran "chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /" on a cluster of 10 servers. I've since managed to repair the majority of the filesystem by initially editing /etc/rc.local, placing a lot of chown ...
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Understanding file ownership Linux
I have a Java program on my Linux box and I wanted to create a little one-liner shell script in /bin to prevent having to navigate to the folder of the program and setting all the command line ...
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Accidentally changed the owner of /bin and other directories
I recently made something very, very stupid. Instead of typing: chown adam ./* I wrote: chown adam /* (I forgot about the very important dot). Now I have some files with owner adam instead of... hmm I ...
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Transmission-daemon not picking up on watch directory
Trying to get my transmission-daemon to pick up files from a dropbox folder, to make remote starting easier (it's a headless system).
As far as I can tell, the settings.json file is as expected, but ...
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Accidently changed the owner/group permissions of linux /
I accidently changed the permissions of linux /
sudo chown -R deploy:deploy /
and messed up every thing. SSH is not working, web server showing error. And it is a cloud server! (Ubuntu 10.04)
There ...
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Creating files and directories with a certain owner (user/group) while sudoing
I need to wget something (results in a compressed file in cwd), then I have to extract it, then do some copy/move/modification stuff and perhaps finally execute an script (from the downloaded archive)....
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How do I give a user 777 permissions without affecting others?
I have a user on my CentOS server who is not part of any group, just by themselves.
How can I give that user 777 permissions without affecting any other user on the server? I have chroot off, so I ...
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Allow specific user permission to read/write my folder
I have a folder /home/samantha/folder that I want to share with the user tom. He can read/write the folder. How do I do that?
chown wouldn't do it because I still want to be able to be the owner of ...
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