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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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