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How to chown directory for multiple users?
Specs:
Running Centos 6
64 Bit
I am trying to chown a directory for all users on the VPS, aswell as for apache. But for some reason I can only have either apache, or just the users.
I tried doing ...
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Group member cannot create files/directories in folder
I'm trying to set up my Linux server and I managed to get stuck at this point:
I created a group called 'gitusers' and added a user to it (let's call him 'foo')
I created a folder called 'website'
I ...
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Files being created with the wrong owner
I'm using AWS sagemaker and today I went to commit some files and got this error:
Bad owner or permissions on /home/sagemaker-user/.ssh/config
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please ...
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Failed to adjust OOM score of renderer with pid X: Permission denied
I'm not sure what exactly causing, but I'm getting following error:
Apr 11 12:30:00 X alacarte-made-2.desktop: [1712:1735:0411/123000:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(162)] Failed to adjust OOM score ...
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What does chmod 7760 <directory> do in CentOS 7 bash?
I typed the command chmod 7760 by accident. I meant to type chmod 770 and now I'm curious what the first command did exactly.
After typing chmod 7760 , I typed ls -Al and the directory name was ...
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Root Can't Delete Folder It Owns
Platform: CentOS 6.2 Shell: tcsh
EDIT
Brian Swift has pointed out a workable solution. He points out that if the home directory is served via NFS, root on a client may not have the same permissions. ...
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How give the permission to access subfolders in /root?
I need give the permission to read/write in this folder, which are subfolder of /root directory to mike.jackson (for some reason someone crete this folder inside /root) :
/root/Products/Metadata/...
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Centos Sftp Ssh - How always create files with rwx-rwx-r-x and always owned by a certain group
I have a user myuser, which is only allowed to connect to ssh via sftp. I'd like this user to always create files with rwx-rwx-r-x and always owned by the group apache. I've tried to accomplish the ...
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logrotate failing to rotate, permission denied as root user
I'm having a problem that I cannot wrap my head around. I've setup logrotate on a centos 7 server to rotate my app logs.
This file is in /etc/cron.daily (i even added a whoami to verify it's running ...
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Unable to write files on CentOS
I have a VPS running on CentOS 6 and apache2 as webserver. I have several PHP scripts running in my server, and everything goes smooth, except to file writing. For some reason, my PHP scripts are ...
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Restore default permissions to "/var" to CentOS installation
So I accidentally ran chmod -R 0777 /var and I need to revert that (let alone allow chmod the correct ssh directory so I can log back into it). I'm feeling screwed, can anyone help? The sooner the ...
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"chmod -R 777 /" for a few seconds - now what?
On Centos 6.5 I accidentally typed
chmod -R 777 /
Ooops. I CTRL + C'ed out of it very quickly, but not before it'd started working away for a couple of seconds.
Consequences? Well, already
su ...
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Restrict a user from accessing everything but a folder
I have a VPS running on CentOS 6. The parts inside the VPS are spread in different folders. My websites are in /var/www/html and some other key parts for my VPS are in /home/.
Could someone give me ...
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Create new SSH user and give him permission to an existing directory
Im trying to create new user called svecias and give him permission to connect via SFTP only to existing directory and deeper (/usr/share/nginx/itsupply).
Currently directory is owned by nginx in ...
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Getting error: "Error constructing proxy for org.gnome... Could not connect: Connection refused" when running gnome-terminal
I am getting the error: "Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Could not connect: Connection refused" when I try to run gnome-terminal. I am running CentOS 7. I ...
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