Questions tagged [ownership]
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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
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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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Takeown extremely slow on external HW RAID1 drive
I moved a cheap external two drive RAID1 USB3 enclosure from my old PC to my new one. The file ownership was all wrong so I have been trying to take ownership of all the files. I was trying do do 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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Take ownership greyed out
I am the system administrator.
I took ownership of those directories:
C:\Windows
C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)
I gave myself full permissions without any problems.
Recently i noticed an .exe ...
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gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir /home/USER/.gnupg
I get a warning about unsafe ownership of ~/.gnupg:
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
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External Hard Drive Ownership
When i copy a file over to my external hard drive, everything works fine, until i plug it into another computer. All the sudden the files i copied require admin rights to be read or writen to, on all ...
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How would I go about copying owner protected files?
Currently I'm attempting to copy a file from the WindowsApps directory. Of course, I run into the issue with permissions, so I'm attempting to set permissions. While I can take ownership of the folder ...
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Give access to laptop's internal HDD to other Windows users
I replaced my laptops HDD with SSD, I have tons of data on that HDD and I use that drive as external backup, I tried to access it from Windows 7 PC and I had no problems, here is picture how ...
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Windows 10 privilege/user rights/ownership issues
I was trying to get access to %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps, but the OS won't let me, and while I don't remember why I needed access to it, it had something to do with an ESP8266 microcontroller board I ...
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Windows Server 2019 - Cannot take ownership of file
I know that this question has been asked before, but all threads are very old and none of the answers has fixed my problem. I was working on a Power BI report and all of a sudden found that my report ...
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How do I add an account with permissions to the entirety of the subdirectory structure and all files contained therein?
Bricked my system. Recovered it. Trying to move the windows.old folder (move, not delete) from the system drive so I can pick it apart later.
Permissions problems. Because of course.
Added the new ...
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Samba shares are accessible only for a specific user set by chown
I've stumbled upon a peculiar issue regarding samba share.
It only works when ownership is given to the samba user (shared) by running chown -R shared:sambasecure /mnt/Backup. I'm running CentOS 8, ...
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How to see file permissions and ownership in git bash (Windows 10)?
When I do ls -l, all files appear to have the same user, and all appear to have same permissions:
regular files have -rw-r--r--
executables have -rwxr-xr-x
directories have drwxr-xr-x
Regardless of ...
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FTP access to a file accessible only by root
When I try to do the following:
ln -s /var/log/exim_rejectlog /home/user/logs/exim_rejectlog
It creates the symlink and FTP access to the logs directory can see it, but because files in /var/log/* are ...
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Windows 10 automatically changing ownership of external drive
An external disk used at work and at home is presenting a weird behavior. When plugged in on office computer, the user on that computer takes ownership of that disk and when is plugged at home, it can ...
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/usr and /etc changed ownership to user "5640" and group "13023". What happened?
after just installing samba on my Ubuntu server, I got warnings (from the samba installer) about strange ownership and permissions set for my /etc and /usr folders.
I checked and indeed /etc and /usr ...
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grant ownership to everybody / remove ownership completely
I had a dual boot system with Win10 and Mint 19.3 for some time and I am now in the process of adding a hackintosh to the mix.
I have a NTFS partition to which all three should have access. Between ...
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Cannot change ownership of drive because it is read-only (Windows 10)
My secondary drive suddently became read-only. When I try to remove the read-only (right-click -> Properties -> Untick "Read-only" -> "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files), it switches ...
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"The parameter is incorrect.r" when running takeown to take ownership of my data drive after re-installing Windows
When executing the following command:
takeown /F D:\ /A /R /D Y
I get the following error:
The parameter is incorrect.r): "D:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-1597830813-2420638671-2875775154-1001\.
This ...
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How To Restore Default Ownership of System32 Subfolders and Files?
I'm fixing a friend's computer (well, trying to) and found that he had taken ownership of the System32 folder... Is there a simple way to revert ownership of all its subfolders and files back to the ...
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Containerd default ownership
After installation of dperson/samba Docker container, I set up a share for the /opt folder to modify some configurations of other container directly via smb protocol (bad idea!).
I made the mistake ...
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Delete (remove) Clover created EFI folder in macOS Catalina
I have a couple of folders that were created by Clover when I accidentally selected my OS hard drive instead of the EFI partition when installing an update. Now the root of my main hard drive has EFI ...
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Taking ownership from Root
With a fresh installation and beiing new to the Linux world ,I created a new partition ext4 with gparted to put the Timeshift files , How can i take the ownership back from root under Linux MInt 19.3 ?...
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DIfferent behaviours of rsync
According to what I have understood, rsync without the -o and -g options is meant to copy without changing the owner and group of the destination. However, I found out a very strange behaviour of ...
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How to change the ownership of the installed program to my account?
For some reason I need to change ownership from EVERYONE to just my account. Is it possible or do I need to reinstall the program?
System: Windows 10
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How to make every file available for every one on every computer on an EXT4 usb stick?
I need to have an USB stick with a git repository on it because i may want to change things in the repo on several computers (centos and redhat)
The repository uses symbolic links so this stick ...
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Fastest way to take ownership of a huge amount of files in Windows 10
I've taken 8 TB of drives from my old PC and attached them to my new one, and I no longer have permissions to read/write to many if not all of the folders on most drives. The issue is, I have a huge ...
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Windows 10: A file and folder ownership mess and how to fix it
In Windows 10 Pro 64 v 1903
I had a problem changing access permissions for a new user, and a comment on my question about that told me to check the ownership of the folders appearing in the error ...
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It is possibile to write/overwrite files/folder as root without changing permissions of that files/folder?
Let's assume I have created a system user account in order to run services without being root. These services access some folders with many files inside, and the system account owns this folder/files.
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Fixing unknown permission in Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL)
I caught permissions problem on my web application file inside Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL)
My System are :
Linux Ubuntu 18.04 on Windows 10 64bit
I run my web server in ubuntu, when I print list ...
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Windows 10: Why Does CBS.log Say Directory Is Owned Twice or Has Its Security Set Twice?
On my system, C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log contains these lines:
2019-10-08 02:00:48, Info CSI 0000008e Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\en-US\ is owned ...
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Bulk change of ACL folder owner
We have several thousand folders and sub-folders in quite a complex folder structure which we are backing up. Several hundred of these sub-folders have been flagged during the backup process as ...
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takeown.exe: Succeeds in PHP sript, fails in cmd
I created a cron job on my computer which runs a batch file as LowCronUser. Next, the batch runs a PHP script with the sole purpose of taking the ownership of a few files.
LowCronUser has basic rights,...
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How to get around this error when unTarring an archive “tar: Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 1000: Operation not permitted”
When attempting to untar a file in a docker container with:
tar -zvxf training.tar.gz -C data/multi30k
I received the following error (train.de is a file within the .tar file):
tar: train.de Cannot ...
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Understanding how to use Icals & Takeown to make changes and reset in Windows 10
Take ownership of a windows folder and its contents
Make Changes
Return ownership to original
Understand the process
Use Icacls and takedown in a windows 10 environment
Before using ...
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What if to-be-created Office owner files already exist by name
As we know, MS Office applications like Excel and Word create Owner-files that start with ~$[...].extension
For example:
A Word-Document called "MyWordFile.docx" would get an owner file called "~$...
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ICACLS Setowner to folders only
I need to give user_foo full control in all files and subdirectories in a \directory.
user_foo is the owner of the /directory.
user_foo has own some subdirectories but not all subdirectories.
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import zpool overwriting ownership/permissions (cf. -o uid=,gid=,umask= mount options)
I have a zpool from a system with different users than the machine I am working on that I want to copy data from. Therefore, I need to import and mount the zpool with read permissions. However, since ...
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