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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Linux auto chown web uploaded files to users folders
I have a home server that stores my files and I access the files in my internal network with samba. I have 3 users and each user has its home folder on /home/user.
In order to access the files from ...
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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 I undo a `sudo chown -R /` on Mojave? [duplicate]
I ran a command that ended up executing as
sudo chown -R /
Can I revert / to default permissions?
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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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Centos: Apache needs to read files created by Tomcat
After trying a lot of different solutions I came here for some help.
I have a web apps in apache HTTPD which serve the frontend and a Java app in Tomcat in the same server.
The thing is that the ...
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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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