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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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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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How to (effectively) make a group an owner for changing privileges
I have data on disk which has a high likely-hood of accidentally being modified and I want to remove all write privileges by myself or anyone else. However, occasionally this data DOES need to be ...
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Why is a normal user allowed to give away a file/folder by running `podman unshare chown`?
I think that usually a normal user is not allowed to give away a file or directory by running chown without sudo. A question was asked and answered at unix.stackexchange:Why can't a normal user chown ...
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How to automatically change permissions and owner:group on any file added to a specific directory?
I run an unRAID server (unRAID is based on Slackware) and would like to find a way to automatically change the permissions and ownership of every file added to a specific directory.
Specifically, I ...
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Can't change owner of folders/files on thumb drive
I have a drive being mounted (either manually or automatically using usbmount) and I can't change the owner or modify the permissions on the mounted drive or folders/files within in order for Mono to ...
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linux permissions / chown vs ftp
I have (I guess basic) problems with Linux permissions/ownership.
I have FTP user "ftp".
Then I have all files on my server under different user "nginx".
To make the websites work I need to have all ...
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cannot chown file as root
After mounting a NTFS or fat32 partition (not as readonly), I try to change it to my user permissions with
sudo chown user: file
However I am then told that the "Operation is not Permitted".
I have ...
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How to fix broken "etc/sudoers" ownership on EC2?
Backstory: I was trying to get PHP to execute node, but ended up changing permissions / ownerships on probably more files and folders than I should of.
At one point I stumbled upon someone's ...
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Change owner on its own directory
I have a script running with the user user1:user1, making operations inside a directory dir.
At the end of the script, I would like to use chown to change the owner of the script to user2:user2
But ...
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Confirmation prompt for chmod, chown
I'm just trying to add a confirmation prompt to a few linux commands like chmod and chown.
I've tried to google this but I can't find much information on the topic.
While searching I found out ...
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chown -R root:root .* in /root performs chown on /
When running the command in the title from /root it somehow jumps up to / and changes ownership for ALLfiles, i only noticed because error messages for /proc popped up.
Maybe i'm getting old but ...
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Why I can't access to this directory after that I use the chown command?
I am not so into Linux and I have the following problem.
I have installed a LAMP environment of an Ubuntu Linux system dedicated to the develop (it is on my PC and it is not a production server).
So ...
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chown not working on ext4 hard drive
I have a new 3TB internal hard drive and after writing some data to it I completely zero'd the drive using DD. I then created a partition table (GPT) in Gparted and created an ext4 partition. All went ...
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Checking if specific user used chown on specific directories?
I recently granted one user sudo access rights on test server. This morning I see that server is screwed up. I see that owner rights where changed on many directories. For example many root ...
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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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How to make a file editable by two different users in different groups?
I have a folder at /home/www/, and the owner is www, which is part of the www-group. I have another user, john, part of the john group. How can I chown /home/www/ to make it writable by both www and ...
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Multiple Users with owner rights?
I have bought a VPS and I am busy with setting up a FTP server. This is working now, but i can give only one account owner rights. So i have made a group 'administrators' with 2 users. The problem is ...
Tom