Questions tagged [chown]
The chown command shell of a Unix-like operating system (such as GNU / Linux) is used to change the owner of a particular file.
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Ubuntu 18.04 SFTP with users and one major user
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 system running and want to access this system using SFTP.
I have a lot of users, that shall access /var/ftp/data/%u, additionally, I need a user f_sftp, that can access and read ...
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FTP User/Group permission on VSFTPD and UBUNTU
I developed a vsftp server with three user groups: g1, g2, g3. Each group has a folder with its name. For example.
/home/server/g1
/home/server/g2
/home/server/g3
Each group also has users
sudo ...
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File ownership preservation with setuid and setgid
I have a folder which have setuid and setgid set, like this:
drwsrwsr-x 2 max testgrp 4096 mars 20 23:57 .
I have also 2 users test1 and test2, members of testgrp group
When I create a file with ...
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Linux auto chown web uploaded files to users folders
I have a home server that stores my files and I access the files in my internal network with samba. I have 3 users and each user has its home folder on /home/user.
In order to access the files from ...
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How to automatically change permissions and owner:group on any file added to a specific directory?
I run an unRAID server (unRAID is based on Slackware) and would like to find a way to automatically change the permissions and ownership of every file added to a specific directory.
Specifically, I ...
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Can I undo a `sudo chown -R /` on Mojave? [duplicate]
I ran a command that ended up executing as
sudo chown -R /
Can I revert / to default permissions?
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How do I stop a file changing groups when it is edited
My Debian LAMP web server has files in the website document root with owner:group set at [username]:www-data.
When I edit such a file by connecting using sftp and using a text editor the group ...
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Mount a windows path (cifs) in a voulme of a docker image
I have a windows file server and an Ubuntu machine which runs docker. Inside this docker there is a Nextcloud container. The /var/www/html inside ther Nextcloud container is mounted as volume on the ...
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sudo chown - operation not permitted
I don't understand why I'm not allowed to change the owner of a folder as root user (the folder is mounted with a hard disk).
root@raspberrypi:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /media/hdd
chown: ...
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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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i need help reversing a chmod, chown and 'whoiam' code
I used this code on an app:
chmod 600 /Applications/Freedom.app ; chown 'whoami':staff /Applications/Freedom.app
Does anyone know how to undo this?
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chown: /usr/local: Operation not permitted
How should I fix this?
Tue Oct 31 21:52:56 mona@dhcp-wifi-8021x-155-41-82-88:~$ brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup
Error: /usr/local is not writable. You should change the
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Can't change owner of folders/files on thumb drive
I have a drive being mounted (either manually or automatically using usbmount) and I can't change the owner or modify the permissions on the mounted drive or folders/files within in order for Mono to ...
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How may I mount an external drive in fstab and give owbership to multiple users?
I mount an external drive on my Raspberry-Pi (Debian/stretch) and I mount my external drive in the fstab like this:
UUID=1AD09862DC893951 /media/USBHDD1 ntfs-3g nofail,uid=pi,gid=pi,umask=007 0 0
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Centos: Apache needs to read files created by Tomcat
After trying a lot of different solutions I came here for some help.
I have a web apps in apache HTTPD which serve the frontend and a Java app in Tomcat in the same server.
The thing is that the ...
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Ownership remains unchanged after `sudo chown` in ubuntu
sudo chown reports that it has changed ownership but stat shows that they remain unchanged. I have absolutely no clue as to what might be causing this behavior. Commands and their output are listed ...
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How to see when folder access permission is changed?
How to see when folder access permission is changed?
The folder now has 777 permission and I want to know when chmod command is run for it. Is it possible?
My OS is Ubuntu.
Thank you.
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What is the effect of “chown nobody:nogroup”?
What is the effect of chown nobody:nogroup on a single file or directory and what is the effect on files within a directory?
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Setting up a local development environment with nginx on Linux (ubuntu)
I recently moved to a new computer, and copied over all existing git repositories for webdevelopment projects from my old computer. On that old computer, I had installed apache to serve certain ...
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Undo mistaken chown of /usr/bin on macOS Sierra
I made a huge mistake. I wanted to change permissions for /usr/local/bin, but changed permissions for /usr/bin instead. Now I can't use sudo and others. I tried to change it back, but operation is not ...
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linux permissions / chown vs ftp
I have (I guess basic) problems with Linux permissions/ownership.
I have FTP user "ftp".
Then I have all files on my server under different user "nginx".
To make the websites work I need to have all ...
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cannot chown file as root
After mounting a NTFS or fat32 partition (not as readonly), I try to change it to my user permissions with
sudo chown user: file
However I am then told that the "Operation is not Permitted".
I have ...
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How to fix broken “etc/sudoers” ownership on EC2?
Backstory: I was trying to get PHP to execute node, but ended up changing permissions / ownerships on probably more files and folders than I should of.
At one point I stumbled upon someone's ...
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Logging into new FTP server, but no directories show up
I've tried this with both ProFTPD and SFTP. I'm trying to chroot a user to /var/www/user however when I log in to the FTP server with their account, I get "/var/www/user: No such file or directory". ...
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Best way to ensure the contents of a directory is always owned by Apache
We have a couple Apache VirtualHosts on a CentOS 7 server, and the PHP sometimes requires the ability to create/edit/delete files and/or folders, so it's important that the permissions always be ...
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How to use wilcards on chown command?
I need to use wildcards on chown command. Example:
# chown app:demo /opt/app/users/*/demo
I get the following error:
chown: can not access "/opt/app/users/*/demo" ': No such file or directory
But ...
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Change owner on its own directory
I have a script running with the user user1:user1, making operations inside a directory dir.
At the end of the script, I would like to use chown to change the owner of the script to user2:user2
But ...
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Script asks for root password even it has executable permissions for everyone
I have a script with name "somescript", which has executable permissions for everyone (755) but when I try to run it with a non-root user it keeps asking root password. I even tried setting to 4755 ...
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Unix chown/give permissions to www-data and user
I have a user, 'joe', to whom I would like to grant permissions (for /var/www/html/) so that I can use ftp (with vsftpd)
So I run this command:
sudo chown -R joe /var/www/html/
And that goes well, ...
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Unable to change owner on a mapped drive directory
I am using a script to copy files from amazon instances to a network drive using rsync. After the file copy I am trying to change the owner of these transferred files but am not able to. What is the ...
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Confirmation prompt for chmod, chown
I'm just trying to add a confirmation prompt to a few linux commands like chmod and chown.
I've tried to google this but I can't find much information on the topic.
While searching I found out ...
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SSHFS mount marked all files as hidden
I ran
chown -R me:me /opt/web/ftp-mounts/
which affected files on sshfs ftp mounts. The remote server hosts IIS based websites. I might have messed up the file permissions on the remote host.
Now ...
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Is there any existing tool to recursively substitute the UID/GID by any other?
I used to own the UID #1000 on my personal computers as it is the default in most Linux distributions. On my new computer, I own a completely different UID (which I cannot change).
I want to access ...
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How to chown file to containing folders owner
How would you go to chown a file to the containing folder's owner
lets say I moved a file from
/home/userA/folder/abc.bin
towards:
/home/userB/finalfolder/abc.bin
How can I chown abc.bin to ...
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Why can't I use my newly created user with chown?
So I am attempting to create a new user and group, and then change ownership of a directory to that new user/group. However, when I do, chown comes back with an "illegal user name" message.
Here's a ...
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chown -R root:root .* in /root performs chown on /
When running the command in the title from /root it somehow jumps up to / and changes ownership for ALLfiles, i only noticed because error messages for /proc popped up.
Maybe i'm getting old but ...
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Why I can't access to this directory after that I use the chown command?
I am not so into Linux and I have the following problem.
I have installed a LAMP environment of an Ubuntu Linux system dedicated to the develop (it is on my PC and it is not a production server).
So ...
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chown not working on ext4 hard drive
I have a new 3TB internal hard drive and after writing some data to it I completely zero'd the drive using DD. I then created a partition table (GPT) in Gparted and created an ext4 partition. All went ...
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chown -R does not set permissions of files. only directories
Hello i am setting up a server nginx gives 403 Permission dinied.
I found out that somehow the command
chown -R root:www-data /my_directory
only set the permissions of directories. When i use ls -...
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Make my custom program root
I have a custom program in C, that iterates trough a directory and writes a log file with the contents in my home. However, it cannot acces /var/log/ /etc/ and other root folders. How to change that? ...
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wubi chown mysql to the /host folder not working
I installed wubi in D: driver. Since I want to store mysql database folder in D: driver which has a lot more space than inside wubi. I copy /var/lib/mysql to /host/mysql then change the database dir ...
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Checking if specific user used chown on specific directories?
I recently granted one user sudo access rights on test server. This morning I see that server is screwed up. I see that owner rights where changed on many directories. For example many root ...
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Change default permissions for new files and folders
Every time I create a new file or folder in Linux, it is accessible for r/w by myself, not the group. I want to change my system setting such that every new file or folder will be automatically ...
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Is it possible to disable chmod/chown from sudoers for these specific directories /usr and /etc?
There has been two occasions where I have accidentally chmod-ized 777 the whole direcotry of /etc and it has forced me to come to the decision that I'd be better off to do fresh installation of OS (...
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Granting full rights on all files (owned by su) within certain directory
I got some trouble with a server situation, where i keep some configuration files in a sub-directory of a web project. Using my superuser account, i make changes to these files, which NetBeans commits ...
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Changing privilege rights on Arch Linux for a particular program
I am quite new to linux and have had issues surrounding every program that I install. Basically, anything that is placed outside of my home directory requires a sudo call prior to opening/executing. I ...
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Unable to retain any root created files and folders after warm reboot in linux
I installed and ran petalinux on zynq board. It runs perfectly fine and boot in around 3 seconds. To boot it this fast I had to do some configuration before compiling the source.
The problem that I ...
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Ubuntu file ownership issue
I've got a problem with my forum platform being unable to install modifications, as it complains the "Packages" directory isn't writeable. It's chmodded to 0777, so it's not a permission issue, but an ...
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chown for files generated by a process running as root
I have a Fedora server running an application as root (via sudo). The users operating the application can extract data with "Save as" menu from inside the application. However, the generated files has ...
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chown: invalid user: ‘www–data:www-data’
I'm experiencing strage problem.
I simple need to give permissions www-data to a folder
chown -R www–data:www-data /somefolder
chown: invalid user: ‘www–data:www-data’
grep www-data /etc/passwd
www-...
