Questions tagged [user-groups]
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chown - Operation not permitted
I'm logged in as minime.
I don't understand why it doesn't allow me to chown file that I own without su privileges. Obviously I can use sudo, but I'd like to understand why? because of www-data group?...
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How to arbitrarily map user/group ownerships in rsync
I need to rsync a directory to a remote server so that all files belonging to user X and group Y on the source (local) machine are mapped to user W and group Z on the destination (remote) machine. If ...
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Why is a new group not active after SSH login via tmux?
This is my situation:
I have added a new group to my user.
I have verified /etc/group is properly set up.
If I do su - myuser the group is shown with id -a
But login-out and login-in again (via ssh) ...
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Give a group write permission to a folder
I need help understanding how giving write permission to a group, works in Ubuntu. I am logged in as root and have a www-data:www-data and ftpuser:ftpuser (user:group). I add the ftpuser into the www-...
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