chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, where mode describes the permissions to modify.
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xubuntu 12.04 Thunar deletes files with permission r--r--r--. Is it a bug?
I tried to prevent my digital photos (.jpg files) from accidental deletion using
chmod 444 *.jpg. All permissions are set and displayed correctly in a terminal (ls -la) as well as in thunar's file ...
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How do I change the default permissions of home directories created with adduser?
How can I change the default chmod of new home directories (created with adduser)?
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Cannot use sudo command, changed permission of /usr folder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get back SUDO into working condition?
Here's how I messed up my ubuntu, I wanted to change file permissions of /usr folder and I did that by taking root privilege
...
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How to overcome “Permission denied” running C program even after “chmod +x”?
After compiling a C program on Ubuntu 10.10, after executing chmod +x ./a.out, I am still getting bash: ./a.out: Permission denied. How can I run my new executable?
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How to use `chown` and `chmod` to make a “pipe” or “pass through” link from guest directory to elsewhere
I want to either extend the size of my guest partition or figure out how to copy stuff from the guest partition to my normal /home directory.
(Because of some other problems I can only run Xorg as ...
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Ubuntu took away permissions from my Data partition
The pangolin has struck again. The bug of the day for today is Ubuntu taking away my permissions on my Data partition (NTFS). One moment everything worked fine, the next moment I couldn't chmod ...
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I just recursively chmod'd everything under / to 750. Any tips?
I won't be the first and I won't be the last, I suppose. While playing around with the find command, I made a whoops and it would appear that instead of changing the permissions of the ~/web directory ...
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Unable to login to Ubuntu Permissions Issue?
Well, I think I royally messed this one up.
In the process of changing permissions in my home directory, I now can't login using any of the 3 accounts I had setup, except for the Guest account.
I ...
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Can't make a file executable
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and I'm trying to make a file executable, but when I check the "Allow executing file as program", the check mark appears then disappear spontaneously.
If it could help, my ...
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chmod 444 can't login
Using proftpd I'd like to login to server. I set permission to user directory to 444. When I am trying to login using ftp client - doesn't working, I can't log in. Did I do something wrong? Maybe I ...
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Changing file permissions problem
A few hours earlier I bought a beaglebone and now I am trying to add nameserver 8.8.8.8 (google DNS) to /etc/resolv.conf. However when I open it with vim and try to add my nameserver, it gives me E21: ...
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chmod: invalid mode: `+a'
System: ( lsb_release -a )
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
This is my command:
sudo chmod +a "www-data allow ...
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How to get chmod (octal) permissions of the folder in the terminal?
I can look in properties of this folder but I want to get properties fast and in digits (octal, e.g. 755, etc.)
What am I to type in terminal to know the chmod of the file or folder I want?
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Inheritable chmod permission from parent directory
I have a directory named cache in /var/www, where I need to provide permission in following way:
sudo chmod -R 777 cache
but that's not enough because PHP script automatically creates ...
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Unable to change permission of the files on mounted partitions in ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I have just installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I mounted my SOFTS(/dev/sda6), a NTFS partition by selecting it on nautilus. After that I openend the terminal and tried to change the permissions of a file. ...
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How to fix sudo after “chmod -R 777 /usr/bin”?
I enetered chmod -R 777 /usr/bin and now sudo is not working.
It is giving error that sudo must be setuid root.
On looking via Google, some advice said to run chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
chmod ...
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Changing the permissions in root files without sudo from recovery
Hi I recently killed my etc folder by running:
sudo chmod etc 417.
Due to sudo being in that folder it cannot be accesed now, so I have to change the permissions back to the correct ones using the ...
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What are the standard file permissions for the /etc directory(file)
I kinda screwed up the /etc directory by running:
sudo chmod 417 /etc
Leaving me unable to use sudo:
sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: permission denied.
sudo: no valid sudoers sources foundm ...
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3answers
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execute file denied [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to 'chmod' on an NTFS ( or FAT32 ) partition?
I am a beginner on ubuntu 11.10,
I want to execute some program named ./Pro but when i try:
$ ./Pro
I get ...
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changed the permission of bin to 700
I changed (through chmod) the permission of /bin to 770. Now, ubuntu does not boot. How do I fix this problem?
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Script doesn't run via crontab but works fine standalone
I have a script that reminds me to restart my computer if uptime is more than, say 3 days (although its set to 0 days now just to check if the script is running as my computer has been up only over a ...
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1answer
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can't chmod on external hard disk? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change files permissions from a different hard drive?
I have an USB3.0 external hard disk, partitioned to 3 NTFS partitions. When I plug the hard disk in, the 3 ...
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1answer
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Cannot find a safe socket path in '/tmp'
A while ago I accidentally ran chmod 777 /, and stopped it as soon as I realized what I had done. Unfortunately, it must have gotten to my /tmp directory, because whenever I start to run Firefox now, ...
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How can I change permissions of a folder, including its enclosed files and subdirectories?
I need to recursively change the permissions of all folders, sub-folders and files from within ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged Does anyone have a clue or idea on how to do this?
I have tried ...
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2answers
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Setting directory file permissions in Ubuntu using chmod
whats the equivalent command of this (Fedora command) for Ubuntu:
chmod +a "www-data allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
When I try the above with Ubuntu ...
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Unable to Login (Ubuntu 11.10)
I'm having a weird issue. When I put my password using my account (ramiz) on the login screen of GUI, a blink of screen and it take me back to the login screen. I tried with Guest user and it is ...
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Permisions set to unknown after chmod 777
I just noticed that after running
chmod 777 *
on a directory that has sub-directories in it does what you would expect. It sets the permissions of everything, including the sub-directories to 777. ...
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Default filesystem permissions and access rights in 12.04?
I have for many years on Unix and Linux systems as default set filsystem permissions and access rights to read and write for user (i.e. myself), and only read permissions for group and others. In the ...
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Automatically mounted NTFS (not in /etc/fstab) won't chmod
I have an NTFS partition so I can share with a dual-booted Windows installation. chmod doesn't do anything, nor issue a warning to indicate this.
I want other (Ubuntu) users to have RW permissions on ...
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Permission denied on ~ even though owner listed as me
Somehow, I managed to chmod and chown my ~ into oblivion.
When I attempt to login through the shell, I get
bash: ~/.bashrc : Permission denied
Even after (as root) I've run
chown -hR nroach44 ...
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1answer
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Are there consequences to running 'sudo chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown'
I want to do this so that gShutdown application can shutdown the system when I'm not there to enter a password. But I've read on forums that changing linux commands with chmod can cause problems in ...
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Is it possible for a directory to change permissions of the files that are added to it?
I have a directory and I want all files that are put in it to have the permissions of **5. In other words I want the permissions of the owner and group to stay the same but the permission to be read ...
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How can I change a set of files Permsissions from Root to user
I copied A set of BlueJ files from /usr/share/doc/BlueJ to a ~/BlueJ directory however the files in folders are set to root permission and read only I need to be able to read/write them.
So in BlueJ ...
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How can I limit a user to access just his folder? Not able to view/cd into any other thing?
How do I limit a user to access just his folder? Suppose I don't want the user to be able to cd anywhere else, isit possible? Do I need to chmod the whole system?
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How to make /var/www/html same as my /var/tmp directory?
I am using one software, who can save files to /var/tmp but not in /var/www/*.*.
I did applied chmod -R 777 /var/www. But still it can write to /var/tmp but not /var/www
How can I resolve this? (I ...
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2answers
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Change folder permission
What permission should i apply to a folder so that everyone can see the hierarchy and all the files inside but they should not be able to read and write them.
The folder can have multiple other ...
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“Permission denied” when starting binary despite “rwx” priviledge
I am trying to run the statistics software Stata 11 on Ubuntu 11.10. as a regular user and I get the following error message:
bash: xstata: Permission denied
The user priviledges seem ok to me as a ...
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3answers
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Messed up file permissions
Not being an expert in Linux/Ubuntu, I had to install from scratch today and messed up w/file permissions.
The thing is that, when backing everything up before reinstalling, a couple of important ...
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3answers
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What are the default file permissions for the home folder?
I have somehow inadvertently altered the file permissions of my home directory. I wish to change them back to the default permissions. However, I can´t seem to find out what the default is.
...
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Executable not running even after chmod'ing it
I am trying to run a BETA precompiled copy of rcracki .. but the problem is when I try to run the executable, it gives an error:
I tried to format the snippet below into one code block, but it didn't ...
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2answers
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How to access executable in a seperate partition? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to 'chmod' on an NTFS partition?
I have just started using Ubuntu and I have my hard drive set up with an Ubuntu partition, a Windows 7 partition and a much ...
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2answers
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Add user that can read / write a root, www-data files
How can I do that?
I got user amira on my Ubuntu 11.4, I want him to able to see / read / write a root user files such as /etc/* and apache files
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chmod files only in all subdirectories
Please someone assist me with chmod, I have the following file structure
-dir1
--file1
--file2
--dir1a
---file1a1
---file1a2
--dir1b
---file1b1
---file1b2
How do I chmod 655 to all files under dir1 ...
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Changing permissions on serial port
I'm using the Arduino IDE in Ubuntu, and am having issues with the serial port. It has worked in the past, but for reasons that may be unnecesary, I felt the need to change the ownership of some of ...
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1answer
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ddclient not working without sudo
When I run ddclient (DynamicDns Updator) without sudo, I get
WARNING: file /etc/ddclient.conf: Cannot open file '/etc/ddclient.conf'. (Permission denied)
stat() on closed filehandle FD at ...
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2answers
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How to recover from mistakenly chmod operation?
I screwed up all my files permissions under a directory, how can I recover. Especially, how to change the files that is non-executable back to read-write-only?What I did wrong was that I chmod all the ...
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3answers
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Cannot write to Folder mounted with SSHFS
I just created a folder according to SSHFS (Ubuntu Docs)
sudo apt-get install sshfs
sudo gpasswd -a jm fuse
sshfs -o idmap=user jm@example.com:/path/to/folder folder
Then I found that the folder is ...
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1answer
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Files are read-only after copying over samba
I used to copy files from one system to another system via samba. How ever I am getting the file only in read only mode. What i am doing now is i used to change the file permission after transferring ...
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4answers
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What if I accidently run command chmod
I accidently ran
sudo chmod 755 -R /
instead of
sudo chmod 755 -R ./
I stopped it after few seconds, but now there is some problems such as
sudo: must be setuid root
How can I revert ...
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2answers
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File permissions: why can't I list a directory?
I am able to list directories in a root shell,
root@ThinkPad:~# ll /media/
total 36
drwxr--r-- 6 root root 4096 2011-05-12 16:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-05-12 13:14 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 ...
