chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, where mode describes the permissions to modify.
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Permanent chmod 777
How can I set chmod 777 for my lamp server?
I am the owner of the www folder (sudo chown -R martin www).
I have changed the permissions of all files (sudo chmod 777 -R www).
I don't know why, but my ...
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problems with /etc/sudoers
I am running ubuntu 12.04 on i3 laptop. By mistake I changed the permissions and changed the user(from root) of /etc folder and I am getting a error when trying to use sudo like:
sudo: /etc/sudoers ...
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Make FlashDrive access as ReadOnly
Can anyone tell me how to make access to flash disk drive as read only ??
i've tried to chmod /media , but not working
any advice pls
thq
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Is possible to make virtual host in a NTFS partition?
I am using Ubuntu and Windows. When I use Windows, i can't access my file in var/www of my Linux partition. So I try to make virtual host and DirectoryRoot in my NTFS partition.
I will combine WAMP ...
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How to provide user permission to read, write on `/dev/sdax`? What is the syntax?
I have two my hard disk divided into two partition (apart from swap).
First one is /dev/sda3 on which I have my ubuntu installation. Second one is /dev/sda1. Now, when I try to copy a file to ...
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chmod - file permission on writable
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 x64 server on ext4 partition.
I set a directory's permission to '766' as below.
sudo chmod 766 /archive
drwxrw-rw- 3 root root 4096 Sep 27 10:50 archive/ ...
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Unable to run compiled files - bash: ./a.out: Permission denied. (I've tried chmod)
First of all, there are many questions like this on AU. Still, none of them solved my problem.
I've compiled my C source using cc test.c, and it did generate a.out file.
However when I run it I get ...
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bash: ./install.sh: Permission denied installing intel fortran 2011
I am trying to install Intel Fortran Composer 2011. When I try to command ./install.sh it gives an error:
bash: ./install.sh: Permission denied
I tried some ways to get pass this.
Tried; sudo ...
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Permissions for apache webroot folder on dev server?
I am a web developer and have Apache setup on my local system for testing.
I keep running into issues with the permissions e.g. unless I chmod any new directories to 777 my IDE cannot write to the ...
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Should I install non-repository software as root or as my user?
What is the right way of installing programs that are not available in repositories: should my user own the binaries and keep them in ~/bin/, or should root own the binaries and keep them in, say, ...
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chmod u+s in /var/www
i have a problem at granting the right rights for the right user...
i want to run pootle with apache, so i downloaded pootle. Then i copied it to /var/www, installed it and gave the www-data user ...
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Unable to make files executable (on ntfs filesystem mounted as rw)
I'm baffled. I've looked around for awhile on this but nobody seems to have quite the issue I do.
I have an ntfs partition for all of my stuff, and I want to run some programs off of it. However, I ...
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'chmod u+x' versus 'chmod +x'
What is the difference between chmod u+x and just chmod +x? I have seen a ton of tutorials that say to use u+x to make scripts executable. However, the u is not mentioned in the chmod help or ...
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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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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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Is `chmod -R o+x /home` dangerous? [duplicate]
I'm very new to Ubuntu. During work on my home pc, I accidentally made the following command:
sudo chmod -R o+x /home
I want to know if it's dangerous to open access for other users and, if so, how ...
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Peculiar permissions/group trouble
I've tried creating a separate user account for rtorrent and sickbeard (a torrent downloader) so everything isn't running as root but I've bitten off more than I can chew.
I've chmodded 2770 (setgid, ...
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alternative to chmod 777 in LAMP [duplicate]
Typically after installing LAMP I like to install phpmyadmin and be allowed to drop folders in var/www/. I run sudo chmod 777 only because the LAMP is on a LAN. I was curious to know what is the ...
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Accidentally ran command, now don't know what to do
Accidentally ran command
sudo chmod -R o+x /home
on my Ubuntu 12.10.
Now what me to do? is that dangerous? I have no backup of partition, so I think this command is not reversible. SO me to ...
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What to do after 'chmod -R 777 /'? [duplicate]
I have many file permission problems, as being a newbie, I unfortunately set permissions on everything somehow to 777 (chmod -R 777 /). I believe I've done this from the root directory logged in as ...
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Not able to change permission of a file to add +x [duplicate]
I am not able to understand what is the issue here ?
vks@vksTP:~/dropbox/shells$ ll sssh.sh
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1218 Mar 17 17:58 sssh.sh
vks@vksTP:~/dropbox/shells$ sudo chmod +x sssh.sh
...
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Trouble reinstalling Ubuntu 12.10 after sudo chmod 777 -R / [closed]
I have made a mistake in changing the file permissions and accidentally typed:
sudo chmod 777 -R /
which forced me to back up my files and reinstall the system. I'm having trouble now in ...
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Transmission daemon: permission denied even if debian-transmission has root group
I've got something really strange. Transmission-daemon keeps telling me
"Permission denied /home/transmission/downloads/.." (.. = name of torrent folder and files)
I created this folder ...
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Ubuntu woes on permissions [duplicate]
I ran sudo chmod -R myusername:myusername on I thought my /workspaces directory but it appears it did the command ran on the root directory, resulting in errors such as:
Could not update ICEauthority ...
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How can I recover from chmod -R a-wrx / command?
Today I ran sudo chmod -R a-wrx /. Now nothing is working. Can anyone help me recover my system?
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How to change default file/folder permission of specific user?
How can I make any folders or files created by a certain user always be public (accessible by anyone) in Ubuntu?
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chmod: permissions of a directory don't change [duplicate]
I have some issue with chmod:
mis@hell:/var/www/blah$ sudo chmod g+w .git -v
mode of `.git' changed from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0775 (rwxrwxr-x)
mis@hell:/var/www/blah$ ls -la | grep git$
...
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Can't log in although password is correct
Im fairly new to ubuntu so bear with me on this. I was doing an assignment for my CSCI 323 class that required Manually adding a new user and my problem came about after I followed these instructions:
...
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Why doesn't chmod work on a file under /media?
I want to execute a script file from terminal but it shows error
root@silambarasan-PC:/media/D-DEVELOPME/androidSdk/adt-bundle-linux-x86/sdk/tools# ./android
-bash: ./android: Permission denied`
so ...
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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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Why can root still edit files with a permission of 0?
I just wanted to delete most files from an external HD except some certain ones. So I chmod these ones to 0 and did a sudo rm -r ./*. Painfully, the result was that everything got deleted.
Why is ...
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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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sudo chmod -R 755 * accidentaly run in /, what are the options?
I have many programs installed, I want to keep my history, and so on and so on.. What can I do to save the situation? Thank you.
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Nautilus plugin to chmod
Some time ago (around Ubuntu 8.04) there was a plugin to Nautilus to change permissions tab in file properties window. It was showing permissions as checkboxes for R/W/X for user/group/others. I can't ...
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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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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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local wordpress installation, plugin installation and file permissions
I have a local wordpress installation and got everything working, until I tried to install a new plugin. Trying to activate the plugin, wordpress asked me for FTP connection information, which I ...
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Copy files without losing file/folder permissions
How can I copy files/folders from an ubuntu computer on a ext4 filesystem to another ubuntu computer which also is on an ext4 filesystem, using a usb stick which uses a vfat filesystem without losing ...
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1answer
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Locked out of drive on Ubuntu Server
I was trying to delete some torrents that I had downloaded with transmission-daemon and was unable to from my samba share on windows due to transmission's default file creation permissions.
I ...
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2answers
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Can't mount UBS flash drives or my CD/DVD drives
How can I fix the permissions to get rid of the following error and mount my USB and internal CD/DVD drive:
Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to `/media/bret' failed: Operation not supported
These ...
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2answers
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how can I change user permission settings for an application
I am trying to prevent the guest user from accessing software-center (I know it can't install anything, but I don't even want it to browse)
The file is owned by root and in group root.
I run: sudo ...
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4answers
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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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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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Chmodded 000 the home folder,now unable to log in
I accidentally issued the following command sudo chmod 000 /home/username/. And now I'm unable to log in. Also when I'm trying from the bash shell, my home folder is appearing as ...
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Assigning different directory permission for each different groups
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit server on ext4.
There are four user groups - marketing, sales, admin and etc.
I need to assign different permissions to /archive as follows:
rw for the marketing ...
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Ubuntu / vsftpd Default folder/file permissions
I am running Ubuntu Server 12.10 and I just installed vsftpd ftp server and I have configured it for proper permissions for access to var/www/$USER
The issue im facing is trying to find how to set ...
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chmod: cannot access New Volume Trash 1000 Input output error
i try to make my flash-disk able to save data and everyone can use it but when i check my chmod it say
what is .trash-1000 about and why its say input/output error how to fix it ?
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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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User account chown
I am a novice Ubuntu user. Mine is Xubuntu Ver 4.8.
I was then unable to access my user account named tomato. Everytime I login the splash, it just went back to the login page. So I tried browsing ...
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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 ...
