Questions tagged [file-permissions]
Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights for specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or modify the contents of the filesystem.
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PHP Unable to Read /home Folder
I am having an issue with a PHP script not being able to read a user's /home folder. This is an issue on a server running AlmaLinux 9.4, my other server running CentOS can read the folder. The error ...
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Policy or permissions to prevent moving, deleting, copying, or pasting files on Windows Server 2016
I have Windows Server 2016 in a domain.
I want everything that users download to go into the download folder on Windows 10.
It can be viewed and uploaded via email button on common webpages. A ...
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How to allow other users to modify files uploaded to SFTP server (login as other user)
I have an SFTP server and I can send files to it as let's say user1. I have another user (user2) in that server and I want to be able to remove/modify files uploaded to the user1's configured sftp ...
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Permission is not applying for user in share path
I denied permission for all users for a folder, but even after applying the permission, users can access the folder in share path.
Can you suggest a solution for this?
Need help as folder is very ...
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Why can I use an SSH private key with group permissions on a remote server but not on my local machine?
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There is something I don't understand with SSH private key permissions and I'd like some in-depth explanations about the difference in behavior I'm noticing
Here is the thing, I am trying ...
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About the time it takes to change file permissions
I am considering changing the folder permissions on a NAS running on Windows from read-only for everyone to writable. The file count is 400,000 and the data size is 6TB. How long do you think the ...
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phpBB installation: chgrp not permitted
What did I do wrong?
I did see many of those warnings during the installation of phpBB: [phpBB Debug] "chgrp(): Operation not permitted" in file /var/www/phpbb_0003_0003_0011/vendor/symfony/...
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Why does lsattr show different attributes for the same file?
Files in a (Ubuntu 22.04.4) Samba share mounted with cifs from /etc/fstab are returning apparently random attributes each time I run lsattr - is that normal?
/etc/fstab:
//192.168.0.7/files /mnt/nas/...
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How to configure Docker permissions for container to write to a volume as a non-root user?
I have my web application deployed in a couple of Docker containers, and for file uploads I need to be able to write to the filesystem. The application is proxied through Nginx running on the same ...
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Mounting the GCP Cloud Storage bucket to Directory as a non-root user
I'm running the one service on the Linux based instance in GCP.
So for running the service, i have created the one user & group for that i.e.;
user: test-user
group: test-group
Then i need to ...
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Permission error when setting global-acls in dovecot
Dovecot's ACL plugin instructions indicate that for global acl's, we're supposed to create an acl file in /etc/dovecot/. and to include the access control list items in it. So I've created /etc/...
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several tomcat apps running as user, using single java jdk installation owned by root
We administer server with java web applications: alfresco/solr running on tomcat.
Up to now java jdk sources of same versions were extracted/copied in several directories next to each other, so ...
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Dovecot/Pigeonhole: How to specify default directory permission for newly created ./sieve directory for fresh uers?
I am running Dovecot 2.3.20 with enabled Sieve support. I am using virtual mail boxes for several hosted virtual domains. The system account and group which owns (shall own) the directories and mail ...
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Mounting Samba share to Docker container
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On my server I am runing various Docker containers, specifically a syncthing container. In addition I am also using my server for different Samba shares.
My goal is to mount the host directory /...
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