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How to get r/w permission for a directory for a particular user?

In my ubuntu server a directory named "softwares" is shared via samba for windows clients. The directory has only read permission. I am the system admin working on the ubuntu server. I am also not ...
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How should I Change Permissions (Dirs & Files) recursively in an mp3 external hard drive?

this is not that simple as it sound, so please read carefully before answer (I really tried before writing this). So, the problem is the following. I have an external hard drive, NTFS of 2TB. It is ...
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Setting permissions for home server directories

I am fairly new at all this. I have set up a home server using an old laptop and Ubuntu 12.04 to stream media to my LG TV through their DLNA system called MediaLink. This is being done through Plex ...
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I am owner of a folder but cannot access it

I have a folder with my notes about the system inside. I am logged in as user1 cd masternotes produces: bash: cd: mastersnotes: permission denied whoami produces: user1 ls -l produces: ...
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weird change of owner for user home dir when installing vettle

All of a sudden my home dir turned to be owned by user '1016': drwxr-xr-x 96 1016 1016 20480 Apr 2 2010 albert drwxr-xr-x 32 guest guest 4096 Mar 16 13:46 guest I don't understand how that ...
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How to make a directory permanently writable?

I am using LAMP stack for development and I have a problem with making /var/www permanently writable. I use this command: sudo chmod -R a+rwX /var/www This works, but after putting a web app and ...
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Folder permissions changed automatically

Hey guys first of all I searched a lot on this site but didnt get any exact answer to my questions. Dont know something happened automatically and all the folders permissions changed automatically and ...
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Allow user and program to use a directory (read/write) outside /home

There is currently an issue with Mendeley in Ubuntu and ecryptfs home folders The only workaround at this time is to allow Mendeley to write/read to another folder outside the ecrypted /home folder. ...
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Directory Permissions / Create Mask (Samba) (Ubuntu Server OS Directorys)

I want to understand the permissions a bit more! So I have a few questions: Does this change the directory's permission? sudo chmod -R 0777 Directory And is there a list for the "create mask" and ...
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How do I restore the default permission on a directory/folder?

I am using ubuntu 10.04,I need to give execute permission in www folder.But by mistake i gave execute permission in whole var folder.sudo chmod -R 777 /varThen i try to change it into normal ...
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How do I give www-data user to a folder in my home folder?

I have a folder: /home/myuser/folderA I want to give www-data user write access to the above, while 'myuser' continues to have normal access (as it is myuser's home folder anyway). Which commands do ...
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/var/www permission problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to “/var/www”? I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, and Linux in particular. I want to use Ubuntu for web development mostly, so I went ...
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Accidentally changed permissions of /opt, how to undo?

I have accidently unlocked a system file with the command: sudo chmod 777 /opt Does anyone know how to undo this action or to lock it again?
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Assign Group rights to folder

Hello I am new with ubuntu and I have a question. I created a user ABC. I created a group XYZ. I added user ABC to group XYZ . I have a folder mounted mydrive. I mounted it under as I have attached ...
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Change file permissions for the entire folder

I am trying to change the file permissions for the entire directory. Presently all the files in the dir have the following permission, -rw------- And I wish to change it to, -rw-r--r-- I know I ...
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Setting folder permission so it isn't deletable, but everything else is allowed

I want to set permissions to a folder such that, when I'm normally logged in (meaning not as root), this folder isn't deletable, but I can still change the name of this folder and move in around in my ...
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How to change file permission from Ubuntu wubi install

I am new to Ubuntu and Linux. I have a WUBI installation within Windows 7. The issue I am having is that I can't seem to modify Windows files from Ubuntu. I can access and see all the files and ...
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How to reverse file ownership and permission settings

I installed LAMP and WordPress on my system a week ago. Since I couldn't create Child Themes in WordPress and work with PHP folders for my other projects collocated in var/www without using Nautilus I ...
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Directory permission

I am running 12.04 x64 server on ext4 disk. There are two user groups 'A' and 'B'. For a specific directory, I would like to give its all permissions to user group 'A'. Also I would like to give only ...
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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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/ folder permissions

I've changed / folder owner from root to administrator account. Now no sudo commands are working. It used to show sudoers are in mode 04666 it should b in the mode 04000 Then i did something and it ...
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Getting access to var/www

Very, very new user to Ubuntu and I've been searching for a long time without finding an answer. Probably I've gotten the answer but I don't understand it all that very well so I thought I try this ...
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Can I restrict file access to other users? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I restrict users? I'm sharing my computer with my roommate, and she needs access to my libre office, but I don't want her to see my financial/tax information. ...
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500 OOPS: cannot change directory: /home/user/public_html, VSFTPD error

I setup VSFTPD on my Ubuntu server 12.04, it worked very good. Until I tried to change the permissions of the user so the user couldn't go in the / directory and only in the directories inside ...
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Default permissions for /opt directory?

During the copying of certain program folders to my /opt directory I mistakenly changed the permissions of the /opt directory. At the moment I (current user) can simply write/copy files to the /opt ...
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Inheriting parent folder's permissions

Okay. I've installed Ubuntu on an old laptop, which I plan to stick in a drawer and never open again, for use as a file and media server, and all is going well except that I'm having some problems ...
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“You are not the owner…” message when trying to access folder

In the properties menu of this folder the permission is set to "root" user and group, it shows the message "you are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions." I am indeed the owner and ...
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Can a directory belong to more than one group?

Can a directory belong to more than one group? (On windows it seems possible - but when I do an ls - it looks like there is only one group available.)
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Share folder between users

I have created a folder in / that I would like to share between users in a certain user group on my system. After changing ownership of the folder from root to myself and changing the group ...
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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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Broken file permissions when using ubuntu as guest system (vmware)

I'm using ubuntu as guest system on my vmware and i've got following problem: If I copy files from the host system (windows) into the shared folder sometimes it happends that the file permissions are ...
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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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How to make sure other users can't see my files? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why can other users see the files in my home folder? I don't want the others users of my computer to be able to open my home folder. I'm the administrator, how can I do ...
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VSFTPD proper permission for root user

I did set up VSFTPD on my server and can successfully login using a user that has root permission on the server. However, I cannot create any directories outside of the user's home directory. Any idea ...
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Need owner permissions for root folder

Actually i'm trying to copy some business purpose files into root folder but it's not allowing to access the root folder. When i'm trying to change the permissions of the folder, its showing that you ...
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Can a folder have 2 or more owners?

Can I set 2 or more owners for one folder? For example: 2 users can read/write, DC group users can read, others can't see How to I achieve the above configuration on that folder?
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Home folder has limit on size, how to remove it?

How to understand that picture? home 6.4% and user folder 100%
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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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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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creating .deb package but bad permissions into destination folder

I'm building a .deb package for my latest game, http://sundaycoders.host-ed.net/download.html. Everything is OK concerning files locations, menu entries and icon once deb package has been installed. ...
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How do we know that a directory is apache writable?

I've been told that I should create a images folder and an assets folder, and that I needed to make sure that: "they are apache writable". I've also been told to make the app/runtime directory ...
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Permission denied error in transmission after formatting drive to ext4

I use transmission to download torrents to /media/serier/ (so not my home folder). I did this before and it worked, but after formating my drive to ext4 I get a permissions error. This is what I get ...
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How are flags used in linux for file protection?

I am unsure about the term flags used in Linux as I have recently heard of them, whilst doing educational research. And from what I am aware of 'flags' is they are used within directory's to show the ...
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Is it possible to create users that can only use one directory?

Now I've bought an Ubuntu Cloud server. I installed Webmin this morning, and now I have a question. Is it possible to create users that can only use one directory, SVN, FTP, PHP, Python, MySQL, ...
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Gaining access to a folder which requires you to be the admin/owner?

Hey there, I'm trying to install a gedit plugin called zoom, and in order for it to be picked up by gedit it needs to be extracted in this folder /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins. My problem is I can't ...
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Setting up a shared media drive

I want to have a shared media drive be transparently usable to all users, whilst also sticking to FHS and Ubuntu standards. The former takes priority if necessary. I currently mount it at /media/Stuff ...
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Ubuntu chroot “No such file or directory”

I have a web application where I create some folders on my server and put executables there. Then I try to run them with chroot but I get a message that access is denied there. I tried chmod -R 777 ...
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Change folder permissions and ownership

I would like the user to have full rights on this folder (as well as all sub-directories and files in it): ~/.blabla currently owned by root. I have found numerous posts (in this forum and ...