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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Manage mysql files with nother user
I need to copy files in /var/lib/mysql/database/* yo another dir with admin user.
File in /var/lib/mysql/database has 660 mysql:mysql
I already add admin user to mysql group, but it didn't work.
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“You do not have permission to perform this action” when trying to delete a folder [duplicate]
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Can't delete folder and I am admin. “You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from…”
I'm logged in to my laptop on a ...
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Override Samba directory permissions
I'm trying to understand the samba rights management, but I think I missed a bit. I have 2 kinds of users: guests and users with a login via LDAP.
Now I try to override all permission settings in ...
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Subverting the execute flag on Linux systems. Why is this possible?
Whilst reading this, I found the following exploit:
% cp /usr/bin/id ~
% chmod -x ~/id
% ls -al ~/id
-rw-r--r-- 1 edd edd 22020 2012-08-01 15:06 /home/edd/id
% ~/id
zsh: permission denied: ...
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Why does group permission hide other permission?
I just noticed that on Centos 4, a file's group permissions hide the other permissions if you are a member of the group. I would think they would be OR(ed) together? For example:
drwx---r-x 1 ...
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Intermittent access denied errors when attempting to delete files
I have an issue where every once in a while I get an access denied error when attempting to delete or rename an executable. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and I'm only working with files within ...
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What are the correct access rights for the com.apple.dock.plist file on OS X?
After having some problems removing items from the dock on OS X (Mountain Lion) today, I found out that if I reset the access rights on a particular file to give everyone all rights, it worked.
This ...
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Requested security information is either unavailable
So basically we have a client whom on their Fileserver, contains a shared application which is their client management software which everyone runs. However there is one user which gets the following ...
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Cannot change nobody:nogroup permission on samba mounted folder
I'm using Ubuntu. I have a folder which is mounted from a samba share (also an ubuntu server). I copied a load of stuff onto it (all in a folder called "Primary") and the permission on this new ...
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Why can I see a file that I own in CygWin but not in Windows Explorer?
I installed Cygwin in Windows 7 and was browsing through the c:/cygwin/ directory in the Cygwin terminal. There exists a directory bin/ at the path c:/cygwin/usr/bin, but I cannot find this folder in ...
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Hosts file is not editable, even as root user
I am trying to edit my hosts file on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4. I've tried all the Terminal trickery I can, but I always get "Operation not permitted" when attempting to modify the file. I've tried:
sudo ...
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How to unshare a file in a folder (Windows XP)
I have a folder (lets say, "Folder X"), and inside it a file "Y.doc". How can I share the whole folder, except that one file, in Windows XP?
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Folder cannot be deleted
I am using Windows XP Home Edition. When I try to delete a folder I have named cygwin. When I try to delete it or any file or folder within it, there is a long pause, and then an error pops up, ...
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Windows 7 installation removing fedora17
Currently I have Fedora 17 installed on my system. For some Windows specific tasks I need to use Windows, so I want to install Windows 7 on my system.
All of the partitions on my harddrive are ...
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User-specific Network Drive (sshfs?)
My goal is to create several network shares, one for each user on the network. The objective is to replace an internal HDD with an SSD, and move the home directories (or maybe just documents, etc. ...
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Windows 7 won't update while using FBWF (file based write filter)
Good Morning! I have a PC running Windows 7 ThinPC. I found a script on Microsoft's website (located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff850921.aspx) with instructionson how to set it up. ...
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Trying to run a cron job in cygwin but unable to since the cron seems to ORPHAN. How do I solve this?
the output of
$ cronevents
2012/07/13 17:05:12 [Administrator] crontab: PID 2468: (Administrator) END EDIT (Administrator)
2012/07/13 17:05:19 [Administrator] crontab: PID 656: (Administrator) ...
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Cannot read /proc/<pid>/smaps, despite having mode 444 permissions
I'm trying to write a script that examines memory usage for running processes.
To do this, it needs to read /proc/*/smaps files.
Processes owned by root have the permission set to '-r--r--r--', which ...
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Applications on an account with Administrator privileges cannot run
Several applications cannot run in an Administrator account because they do not have permission to create files in the %APPDATA% folder.
Background:
Running 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium Edition on ...
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Rsync producing folders with wrong permissions
I'm rsyncing content from my Windows XP box to an OS X Lion box, and some of the folders have the wrong permission.
> rsync -rtvz --del "/cygdrive/c/rsync_20101220/" ...
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Linux file permissions not being preserved
I am deploying some custom software as root (a necessity for this situation). I set the owner/group to user1:user1 and set all the files to 644 beforehand in shell, then copy and deploy with ant. ...
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Change Drobo directory permissions
I have a Drobo unit that is connected via fire-wire to a Dell notebook. Using Ubuntu 12.04. I can not seem to change the permissions to allow all users to have read/write access to the drives. The ...
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fcgiwrap listening to a unix socket file: how to change file permissions
I have a web server (nginx) and a CGI application (gitweb) that is ran with fcgiwrap to enable Fast CGI access to it. I want the Fast CGI protocol to take place over a unix socket file.
To start the ...
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How to set an executable white list?
Under Linux, is it possible to set a white-list of executables for a certain group of users? I need them to be unable to use, for example, make, gcc and executables on removable disks.
How can this be ...
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Can't write to file - 'Operation not permitted' WITH sudo
I am having trouble writing to a few files on an external HD. I am using it to store media files as well as my time machine backup. The drive is formatted as HFS+ Journaled, and other files on the ...
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Windows 8 permissions (CHMOD) with XAMPP
While I know that CHMOD is impossible in Windows, I do have a problem with permissions.
I'm running XAMPP on Windows 8 Release Preview and I'm trying to install ModenaCam. However, I get an error ...
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Why do you need execute permission on the parent directory to rename a file
On Linux/Unix file-systems, I understand the reason why you need the execute permission on the parent folder to read or write a file: the execute permission gives you access to the inode on the file, ...
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OSX Lion groups: add group, set GID, add user to group, implement FakeGroup fix - all for NFS
I have three goals:
Implement the "FakeGroup" fix
Add a group with a specific GID (i.e. customgroup with GID 1111)
Add a user to that group
Implement the "FakeGroup" fix
According to this ...
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Lost file mode information on ext3 directory hierarchy
An entire directory hierarchy of mine lost its file mode info. E.g.,
ed@bob:~/dev$ ls -l nir.git/
ls: cannot access nir.git/test: Permission denied
ls: cannot access nir.git/log: Permission denied
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Read-only permission on USB
I have an Encrypted USB pin drive. I need to change permissions in the folder and file in such a way that they are no read-only. I use Windows 7 and when I click Properties, for that drive I see a ...
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find files where group permissions equal user permissions
Is it possible to do something like find -perm g=u? I say "like" because -perm mode requires mode to specify all the bits, not just g, and because I can't put u on the right side of the =, like I can ...
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What can I do to prevent my user folder from being tampered with by malicious software?
Let's assume some things:
Back-ups do run every X minutes, yet the things I save should be permanent.
There's a firewall and virus scanner in place, yet there happens to be a zero day attack on me.
...
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Mountpoint permissions messed up after user mount
On a freshly installed Debian squeeze amd64,
$ ls /media -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 12:13 usb0
But after mounting,
$ mount /dev/sdb1
$ ls /media -l
drwx------ 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 ...
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Why can’t I enter a directory when I have the right to?
My distribution is the latest Gentoo.
I have a directory called music which belongs to qdii:commun and which octal access rights are "2070", that is: all permissions are granted to the group ...
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scp No such file or directory
I've a confusing question for which superuser doesn't seem to have a good answer, and neither google.
I'm trying to scp a file from a remote server to my local machine. The command is this
scp ...
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Change Windows Server 2008 R2 permission model to match Server 2008
I recently migrated to a Windows 2008 Server R2 cloud server from a Server 2008 and ever since have had lots of problems with file permissions.
The CMS's that we use to manage various websites no ...
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Is there a way to simulate permissions assigned to a file without applying them to the file?
The command apt-get allows me to simulate the installation or the removal of a package by including the switch/option/flag -s e.g. apt-get -s install {package_name}. Am I able to emulate a similar ...
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User has write access but getting “permission denied” error
A user has been added to a group and the group has been given ownership on an directory.
Now the user is not able to write the files in to the directory using WinSCP, but I have added another user ...
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Windows 7 Locked files/folders
I've got quite the question that I can't find the answer to anywhere (yet).
I use 3D studio Max 8 to do some 3D stuff (yay!). It keeps all of its files in Program Data>>AutoDesk>>3dsMax8
I was ...
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Windows Move Command: Odd 'Access Denied'
I am trying to move folders from D: to C: but am getting 'Access Denied'. I have ownership and full control over every folder in question and am running as local admin in administrator mode. What's ...
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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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File permission vs umask value
If the umask value is 002 for a user, the directory created will have the permission of 775 & files created will have 664, that is we subtract the umask value 002 from 777 for directories & ...
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Cacls recursive wildcard
I have a user named foo and I want him to have only read permission over all files and folders in folder D:/bar
Inside the folder I have a lot of folders and there are .dbf files scattered.
I want ...
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NTFS-3G: Using user mapping, all files become executable after boot to Windows
I have an NTFS partition shared between Windows 7 and Fedora 15. I added a .NTFS-3G/UserMapping file to map my main user/group in Windows to my main user/group in Linux. This was fine until I booted ...
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Remove Permissions
On one of my a partitions, Windows 7 is installed. I would like to delete this partition, but to backup before the following folder "E:\Users\Daniel". Just copying the folder doesn't work ...
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How do I compress system files for which I have been denied access?
I need to compress some files in a folder, but my system denies me access from doing so.
Since they are system files, how can I compress these files without changing the permissions?
I'm looking for ...
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Permission issue with emacs for non-root user (Ubuntu 11.10)
Background
I'm working on my personal VPS configured mostly for learning sysadmin and personal projects. Have run up against an issue where my non-root user could only create/edit files in emacs by ...
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SVN and odd file
I just did an SVN update and found a weird .pptx file that I cannot open. (When I double-click, it does not open.) Then when I right click on the file, it shows only a small amount of options I can do
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Losing file permissions after rebooting Windows 7
I have a User directory full of files that are not accessible permission wise for the user who's home directory it is. Said user can't run Explorer. For example, it provides an error complaining that ...
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Cannot delete two files in Windows 7 — “You need permission to perform this action.”
I did something stupid. I reinstalled Windows on my computer but decided to leave the old installation on the drive instead of reformatting. Now I'm trying to delete the old Windows folder and for the ...
