Questions tagged [file-permissions]
Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights to specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or make changes to the contents of the filesystem.
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What does third symbol in "rw-" file mode mean in OS X ls manual page?
I have trouble understanding ls's manual regarding a file that has rw- mode. Here's the quote:
If r, the file is readable; if −, it is not readable.
If w, the file is writable; if −, it is not ...
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Why does ping require the setuid bit?
In the Jessie version for the Raspberry Pi, ping requires the setuid bit to be set. What is the rationale for this?
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How do I change permissions on a directory
I'm using CentOS and I would like to know how to change permissions on a folder with multiple files in it.
I have used the following commands on the folder as root (Let's say folder =A) :
chmod ...
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Why are file permissions retained when moving files within the same volume?
Ocassionally, we have the problem that a file has permissions different from the folder where it's in.
Now I found out that there's a KB article explaining the reason behind this:
By default, an ...
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chown -R exclude some directory
I want to exclude some large content directory
I'm Using it to chown Directory
chown -R admin /home/admin/web/public_html
is there anyway to exclude a subdirectory under html
Like:
chown -R admin ...
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How to make a folder read-only in Windows?
So I want to prevent myself writing into some files into folder. I always works with back_up folders in which I compare, transfer data to target projects. The problem is that sometimes on mistake I ...
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Regardless of Windows language, how can I make the ICACLS command set a folder to have full access to everyone?
Background
Say I have this command
icacls C:\FullyAccessibleFolder /grant Users:(OI)(CI)F
This works fine in English versions of Windows, but does not seem to work in French versions, giving the ...
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Can I delete files created by others in a directory I own? [duplicate]
I created a directory somewhere with permissions rwxrwxr-x so that other users in my group can create files and directories in it.
I do need to be able to delete the contents in this "public" ...
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Delete /usr/bin/emacs - Operation not permitted
I was about to reinstall Emacs from railwaycat/emacsmacport when I stumbled upon /usr/bin/emacs, /usr/bin/emacsclient and /usr/bin/emacs-undumped.
angrybacon@sandman ~/ $ ll /usr/bin/emacs*
-r-xr-xr-...
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You dont currently have permission to access this folder error
I bought a new SATA Hard drive and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on it. I also installed my old one beside the new SATA HD.
Now I want to access my images / musics and videos but I get this ...
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Can't delete font files
I have 3 font files on my desktop that I placed there temporarily to do some testing with them. I installed them "temporarily" using Suitcase Fusion.
Since then I am not able to delete those fonts ...
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Windows - Can't delete folder from Recycle Bin and it won't restore
Chain of events:
Empty Recycle Bin silently fails. Tried it repeatedly.
Selected ranges of items in Recycle Bin and deleted them (some didn't work), narrowing down until only one item was left: a ...
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Remove ACLs in Linux permissions
I have files that have a plus sign next to the permissions -rwxrwx---+ on a Linux samba server. I found the setfacl command to adjust the acl settings, I would like to remove the ACL completely, ...
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How do I reset file ownership at the command line when the files are owned by users from a dead domain?
I feel like telling a story, so if you want to get to the meat of the question, skip down to the horizontal line.
Original title: Zombies from a dead domain won't give me my files!
I ran into a ...
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Auto-set permissions when uploading to Amazon S3 with Transmit 4 [closed]
Does anyone know how to auto-set the read permissions for "World" upon upload of a file to Amazon S3 with Transmit? It is currently a two step process in my workflow:
upload the file
change ...
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What does 'Inheritance' in the Windows Advanced Security Settings mean?
In windows 7 and 8 there is an option in folder or file's advanced security tab called enable or disable inheritance.
What will happen if I enable or disable this option? What is its default value ...
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How to preserve ownership and permissions in Dropbox?
I have two machines, a Mac and a PC running Linux, that I am trying to keep a certain file synced between using Dropbox.
One of the files that I am syncing needs to be writable by another user (...
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Can I share folders on a LAN using NTFS alone?
I've run several searches, here, here and here including many replies on SE to try and address a simple question:
In a Windows NTFS only environment, if I wanted to use NTFS alone to share folders on ...
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In sftp, how to set the default permission for all files in a folder?
I want to set the default permission for all files in a folder, including newly uploaded ones, to a certain value, say 644, instead of doing "chmod 644" all the time.
Is there any command making ...
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Bash: permission denied for file write
I followed this tutorial guide on "How to Create Linux Proc Files in C Program using LKM".
I've successfully made my module and loaded it in. Now I want to echo to my proc file to make sure the ...
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Create file/folder permission without delete permission
Is there a way I can set create file/folder permissions for a user in Windows 7 without giving delete permission for a folder?
I don't want the user to delete any files in that folder, but he should ...
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Add read permissions to all the directories of a path
I want to add (not modify other file permissions) for all the directories in the path written bellow. Something like chmod -R xx4 /home/mDB/admin/KNUCKLES/dbs/
The path
/home/mDB/admin/KNUCKLES/dbs/
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How do I list the effective file permission in Linux?
i.e:
Suppose the directory permission is 700, and the file under the directory is 570
Then the effective permission of the file is 500
Is there such a command that lists the effective permission by ...
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How to change ownership of a file in Windows 10 – "Access is denied"
I have a file that's created by a program, and apparently an interaction with the system and Google Backup & Sync somehow scrambles the owner and permissions of the file. (The owner shows up as ...
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Make shell script executable in Mac os x without entering the terminal
I have a client that has a mac os x leopard (10.5). I want to be able to ask him to save a shell script that I made in his desktop and execute it, but I can't open the terminal without the client ...
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How to set umask globally?
I am using a private user group setup, i.e. a user foo's home directory is owned by foo:foo, not foo:users.
For this to work, I need to set the umask to 002 globally.
After a quick grep -RIi umask /...
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Windows File Access Denied
I seem to have a general problem with "access denied on Windows". It manifests itself every time if e.g:
My bat file calls a compiler creates a file on disk
My bat file renames a file
But I also have ...
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Advanced Permissions not editable in Windows 10
Windows 10 Version 1511 build 10586.164.
From a administrator's user account, when I open the properties of a folder and go to the advanced permissions, the "change permissions" button is gone; if I ...
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com.apple.quarantine is everywhere, how do I stop it?
Somehow, and at some point, I believe recently, my system decided to add the com.apple.quarantine attribute to some files. It was quite a pain and was stopping me running scripts that I'd written in ...
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File Name Warning for C:\Program
Since a few weeks I get the error message after login:
File Name Warning
There is a file of folder on your computer called "C:\Program" which
could cause certain applications to not function ...
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Cannot delete flash9.ocx
Some kinda voodoo, indeed.
Bought a new boot drive, and it's time to use the old drive for data. I thought I'd save some time by just wiping the unneeded system folders, instead of backing up, ...
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Windows XP cannot access a Windows 7 shared folder
I have a small business network, where there is a centralized imaging machine. This machine then has a shared folder with all the stored images. Originally the imaging machine was an XP, and the ...
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Maintain permissions bits when writing new file with VIM
In Vim, when I write a copy of the current buffer to a new file using :w [filename], it appears that Vim uses the default (i.e. set by umask or whatever) file permissions for the new file. If the ...
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How to copy files to /var/www on Linux?
I’m trying to copy files to the /var/www folder on Ubuntu 10.04. But I think I don’t have the permissions.
How can I do this? Is there some specific permission I should set to this folder?
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Make read-only file read write from commandline windows
How can I make a read-only Windows file read+write for Everyone from the command line. I searched CACLS but the examples aren't great.
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All files in my PC are stuck on "read only", even as the only admin
Windows 7, 32-bit: There is 1 user account in this PC, and that is my account.
What I do is, I right click to a folder and uncheck the read only option, apply, close. After when I reopen the folder'...
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How do I restore and accidental chmod (or chown, chgrp) of root directory?
I was altering permissions to log files and accidentally gave 777 to root. Doah. Could be worse I guess. And I caught it immediately and canceled the command's execution.
Except the accident brought ...
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How to force the deletion of a locked file that has no locking handle on Windows?
When I try to delete the file, using the GUI it says
The action cannot be completed because the file is open in another
program
And using the del /f /q command line it says
Access is denied
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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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ACL vs standard file permissions - which are used when accessing file?
ACLs and standard file permissions seem to be synchronized:
$ getfacl test.cpp
# file: test.cpp
# owner: scdmb
# group: scdmb
user::rw-
group::rw-
other::r--
$ ls -l test.cpp
-rw-rw-r-- 2 scdmb ...
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Command line to open the Advanced Security Settings dialogue
To view the owner of a file or to modify file permissions, you right-click a file, click "Properties", click "Security", and then click "Advanced". This is cumbersome if you do it repeatedly. I would ...
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Accidentally moved folder to System Volume Information
I accidentally moved a folder with lots of subfolders and files to System Volume Information on a Bitlocker-partially-encrypted flash drive. Now I can't move them back (not even with control-Z).
The ...
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Files created in Cygwin have corrupt Windows security settings
On one Windows 10 PC, when I create a file from a Cygwin bash shell,
the Windows security settings for the file are corrupted.
So, for example, if I type echo test > test.txt, when I bring up the “...
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Make some content on USB drive read only
I am having a 8GB pen drive, I need to put a PowerPoint into that and make it read only. Rest of the space should be usable for the user.
Assuming the user will be using Windows only, what are my ...
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Is it safe to chmod 777 everything?
I'm having trouble pulling the whole file directory from a rooted android device with ADB. There are special permissions errors. So I thought a solution would be to chmod everything so the ADB daemon ...
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Impossible to delete a file in Windows 7 (2) [duplicate]
I'm aware of similar posts on this, but they haven't fixed my issue. I have an .iso installation file previously mounted with MagicDisc that I am now unable to delete. I have of course unmounted the ...
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Restrict folder access in Ubuntu
I want nobody to access my private folder, I'd like to set a password for it or just make it only accessible by root user.
How can I get it? I'm using Ubuntu.
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ssh and home directory permissions
sshd will refuse to accept public key authentication if the user's home directory is group-accessible, even if ~/.ssh is set to 700? If the permissions on ~/.ssh are acceptable, why do the permissions ...
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Windows 8 Security shows all "permissions incorrectly ordered"
I have a strange folder/file security problem with a new Windows 8 Pro machine and I spent 3+ hours on the phone with Microsoft today and they don't have a 'fix' but have heard of it a "couple of ...
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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 ...
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