Questions tagged [ownership]
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How to use HP M209dw printer on LAN only (disconnect/block it from “phoning home” on the Internet)?
I don't want my HP M209dw printer to chat with its corporate mothership any more. I just want to use the hardware I bought and have it work for me on my local network without complaining about the ...
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What's the difference between takeown and Set-Acl for changing ownership?
Suppose I want to take ownership by setting the owner to Builtin\Administrators of some folders on a NAS. I can do this in two ways:
Using CMD
takeown /F "\\Server\Share\My Folder" /A
Using ...
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Why does Win10 version of rsync modify file owner/perms even if --perms option is set?
I use Grsync's bundled rsync.exe, and have a following simple .bat script in place to sync the folder to an E drive:
rsync.exe -r --perms -og --verbose --progress "/cygdrive/C/Users/User1/Desktop/...
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Linux system not booting after chown of the root directory `/`
Recently I was unable to paste a video file from download to one of my directories. It was giving error related to permission so I changed the owner of / to myself with
sudo chown -R pranav .
Now it ...
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Recursively change ownership to another user in windows
In Windows (particularly, Windows server 2012) I have to change ownership of a folder with a bunch of subfolders and files.
Here: recursively change owner windows 7 (and in other places) people ...
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Why have I stopped getting access to mail and calendar and some Microsoft application after I took ownership of WindowsApps folder?
After I took ownership of WindowsApps folder, I stopped getting access to mail and calendar applications and some other Microsoft application.
Why is that? How can I undo what I just did?
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How do I set the owner of a registry key using powershell?
I'm trying to modify the permissions of a registry key, however before I can do that I need to change the owner of that key.
Is it possible to do that using a powershell script? I've seen that you can ...
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Can't Open a File or Take Ownership - Access is Denied
I can't open a certain exe in Windows 10. It's not a system folder. It was a downloaded game in WindowsApps. I take ownership from the folder of the game folder, but can't take ownership to files ...
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WSL: rsync not deleting files in destination when absent from source
This is using WSL on a W10 machine.
I'm trying to mirror one drive to another.
The command I'm using looks like this:
root@M17A:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32# rsync -rtivlHu --delete --exclude "Backups&...
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Restoring from backup made with rsync -M--fake-super
For years I have been regularly running the following command locally as a root filesystem backup in the hope I am safe:
rsync -aAXv --progress --delete / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*&...
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Simplest way to use Powershell 7 on Windows to set ownership and permissions on files and directories?
Assume I have a directory somedir that contains several files somefile_nn.txt
The directory and files are currently owned by john, and have full permissions for Everyone which it inherited from ...
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How can I install MacOS security updates when I receive the error message "In order to continue installing, you need to be an owner"
Installing Apple MacOS security updates fails with the error message
In order to continue installing, you need to be an owner
How can I fix this? Running MacOS 12.
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Give all users of a group ability to rm, cp, mv, edit, etc files into or out of a directory
so I've created a directory that will be used across multiple users at /SharedDir. This shared directory is currently configured as such.
drwxrwsrwx+ 6 root group 4.0K Mar 23 20:40 /SharedDir
No ...
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Wrong User OWNER on folder or file: docker run -v <host_path_dir_file>:<docker_some_path_dir_file>/ -- Not working for user defined in Dockerfile
Host OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
Guest OS i.e. a Docker container running: OpenSuse 15.2
Docker Version (on Host): Docker version 19.03.5, build 633a0ea
On host, when I git ...
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NTFS permissions set to inherit, but don't apply to new files
I'm running into a really frustrating issue with inheritance for NTFS permissions not working correctly.
I use cloud storage (specifically OneDrive) for storage of certain files; in this case, I have ...
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