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FreeBSD file group write permissions
I have created a dummy file just to test out group permissions.
touch /path/test.txt
chown user1:txtwriter /path/test.txt
chmod 664 /path/test.txt && ls -la
returns:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 ...
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giving read and write access to group and folder
Say I have a group called mygroup and I want it to have a permission of rwx (777) to the folder /var/www . How do I do this? What is the appropriate command to do this in ubuntu?
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Using the command "id" in Linux?
I have some doubts with the use of the command id in Linux...
I have added one user(andre) to the group "github-total", do if I do id andre I got:
$ id andre
uid=500(andre) gid=500(andre) groups=500(...
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Why is my Time Machine backup trying to backup everything from scratch?
I have a MacBook Pro from work, and I backup a single 20GB folder on it called "Projects" that sits within the root directory on the main hard drive. Recently, our IT department had to create us all ...
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Adding an unlisted group in Mac OS X
I accidentally removed the "staff" group from a set of folder permissions and I have no idea how to get it back.
Is there a way to get it back, and if so how?
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Lock users in a directory
File structure:
/
| root
| srv
| etc
| home
| duke
| aa
| bin
| scripts
| logs
| etc
| servers
| user1
| user2
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Linux User Permissions?
I have two users, user1 and user2 which are both in a group matching their user name. I'd like both users to have full r/w/x permissions on all of each other's files as default without having to CHMOD ...
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Unix Permissions issue with users belonging to the same group accessing a folder
I have a folder I'd really like to allow another user on this machine access to. I'm using mt-daapd to serve music to the network, so I'd like to enable the mt-daapd user to access my Music directory, ...
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How to change the permissions on Linux
How do I set all *.java files in the current directory and all its sub directories to have read permission to all users?
I also want to set all files of at least 1 kilobyte in size in the current ...
Jimmy C
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Owner group of /var/www
If I change the owner of /var/www to ftpgroup
sudo chown :ftpgroup /var/www
am I going to have other kind of issues ? Or is that ok ?
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User write in a subfolder when cant access parent?
I was wondering, i have a webfolder and have permissions set to 770 with group being www-data. I would like to give access to one folder to a friend so he can edit images, css, etc. I made that folder ...
user3109
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How is it possible to list all folders that a particular user/group has permissions on?
Is it possible to list all folders/files that a given group has explicit permissions on, for a machine running Windows Server 2003? If so, how? It would be nice to see inherited permissions as well,...
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Unix users and permissions and how they interact with web files
When you issue the command ls in Linux you get this sort of thing:
drwxr--r-- 1 fred editors 4096 drafts
-rw-r--r-- 1 fred editors 30405 file1.php
-r-xr-xr-x 1 fred fred 8460 ...
Columbo