Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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Cannot rm or chown /var/log/snort as root
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome.
I installed an older version of Snort, uninstalled it and tried to install the latest version as root using sudo. However, the install crashed because root does not ...
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Desperate with Apache2 and cgi (Ubuntu 12.04). Help :(
Im having an issue installing apache2 in Ubuntu 12.04. Im trying to set the cgi-bin folder in the path /home/www/cgi-bin. Ive followed and search all over the internet but I still dont get it...
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Mysql Datadir on different hard drive
I'm currently running Ubuntu 13.04 and MySQL 5.5. I have been using InnoDB, and the default location for installation. The problem is that my main OS partition is fairly small (36GB), and I need to ...
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How to have root access without logging as root? [duplicate]
I am using 13.04 trying to edit or drag and drop files but since all the folders are owned by root and assigned to the group "root" I am not allow to do this.
I added my current username to the ...
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Permissions of mounted cifs share (Shared from FreeNAS)
I have a FreeNAS installation running under VirtualBox. When I try to mount one of my FreeNAS shares in Ubuntu 12.10, permissions on the share prevent me from entering the directory, listing or ...
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Install Windows program & every user can access [closed]
I am using Ultimate Edition 3.2 log in as a root when install Windows program means MS Office 2007 through WINE install perfectly but admin, standard User can't access that MS Office 2007. Totally ...
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SAMBA: Why can't Windows write in Samba shares?
I've made a clean install of XBMCbuntu on an HTPC and then installed Gnome and Samba.
Now I can not write the XBMCbuntu default shares (movies, tv shows, pictures, etc.) using a Windows machine.
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Broke my software center cache
Software center won't start unless I run it as root. Running it as root, there was a message about the cache being unwritable. My .cache folder is on a separate drive and symlinked to my home ...
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bash permissions
My friend was trying to tighten up security on his ubuntu server and changed the permissions on bash. He logged out, and now the computer won't let him log back in.
The server is an off-site server ...
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Why does file owner and group keep changing to root?
I am running an install of CakePHP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The way certain files are accessed I need permissions set a certain way within my install of Ubuntu. Nothing out of the ordinary.
The problem ...
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i want to open a file in the root directory in my c++ application in write mode.
I have a file in the root directory which I want to open for editing in my QT application. Generally we use "sudo (editor) filepath" to open the file with roots permissions. But i want to achieve ...
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Cannot update .ICEauthority, do not have permission to remove/change, cannot resolve host!
I've seen this question asked many times before, and tried every single solution I found, yet none of them solved this problem. All my programming/computing knowledge comes from copying the solutions ...
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Unable to add a serial printer
I intended to add a serial printer but failed in Ubuntu 12.04.
As to use serial port for user account needs to add user to dialout group, the problem is after adding user in the dialout group, there ...
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Allowing apache to access /home/user directory
I have a text file at /home/user/textdata that user change it everyday
and I have a PHP script at /var/www/ that want to read that text file.
How to add the permissions?
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need help with unison
I finally converted my desktop machine from Windows Vista to Lubuntu 13.04. I am having trouble getting the unison file sync program (version 2.40.65) to work on the Lubuntu machine, despite trying ...
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unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
I can´t install any updates. I tried apt-get clean, apt-get install -f, dpkg --configure -a. Nothing helps. I even tried to create a file or a directory in /etc/skel - it cannot be done, even with ...
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Restrict user to folder (not root) on VSFTPD in Ubuntu
I am a new Linux (Ubuntu) user and have a VPS where I am setting up a backup FTP service. I have followed this guide, which I have managed to do correctly and it works.
I have two users (user1 and ...
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Change Ownership of External Hard Drive?
I recently bought an external hard drive on Ebay, I received it and plugged it into my laptop and when I tried moving files onto it, it refused me to drag them on. I looked into the properties of the ...
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Shared library not loading. Loading only under root
I have an executable that requires a shared library that resides in /opt/... folder. I have included the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH under /etc/environment and updated it using source /etc/environment. ...
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samsung scx-4828 scanner works only with sudo
I use ubuntu 12.04
I have samsung scx-4828fn scaning and printing device. Printing works fine. Scanning works only with sudo. Also sane-find-scanner works only with sudo. Please see output:
found ...
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Why doesn't `sudo cd /var/named` work?
I want to cd into /var/named but it gives me a permission denied error, and when I want to use sudo to do this I am not permitted. What is the technical reason for this, and is it possible to do this ...
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Unpacked a tar…badly - now locked out of my own files!
Not knowing well what I was doing, I opened a tar with sudo, and now it's linked to a user that doesn't exist and I can't remove it under any circumstances - perhaps because it's off the home ...
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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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Permission denied viewing content of remote network share
I'm trying to mount a remote network share, but have trouble viewing the content.
It is showing up in my mounted devices but when I attempt to open it, I get
This location could not be displayed. You ...
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recovering sudo/recovering root ownership on system directories — how? possible?
I'm trying to find out the default ownership & permissions for my ubuntu install. I'm also trying to figure out whether the wrong-headed granted of file ownership to the user robert to system ...
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transmission-daemon: error loading working config-file. User priveliges?
Transmission-daemon has worked perfectly on a small headless server for a long time. However, it currently gives me the following error:
transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. ...
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Sudoers NOPASSWD for command not working but ALL is
I've been trying to grant www-data to use sudo service apache2 restart without a password but no matter what I try, nothing works. I have read a few hundred posts regarding this issue on different ...
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Permission denied error on WebDAV mount for two identical users
I have a (webdav share mounted as:
server owncloud_folder davfs defaults,uid=fsi,gid=fsi,dir_mode=2775,file_mode=664 0 0
There are two users with the following gid/uids:
uid=1049(tobias) ...
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Unable to transfer files from laptop to USB due to permission error
I am unable to transfer file from my system with Ubuntu 11.10 OS to a USB drivee (Hp 16GB).
When I copy files from system and try to paste in USB the paste option gets disable. But the reverse is ...
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Does guest account work like a VM (virtual machine)?
If guest session creates the entire user and everything, when running, then erases it all. It sounds like a VM instance, turning on and then turning off/logging out.
Is it?
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Java SE installation error, line 86: ./install.sfx.8046: Permission denied [closed]
I tried installing jre-6u25 with the bin file. I've tried it with both 64-bit and 32-bit, and I get similar errors:
x86 bit
chronos@localhost /mnt/stateful_partition/opt $ sudo bash ...
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“Failed to setuid to root.” How do I Establish a VPN network?
My university decided that the old VPN-network, which worked fine, wasn't good enough anymore and abandoned it. Now I have to establish a completely new VPN-network. My university provided me with a ...
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Don't bother non-admin users with admin questions
My wife and kids use ubuntu laptops which I administer.
How do I prevent the system from, e.g., offering them software updates? (I know I can disable that for the whole box, but that is just one ...
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Can not get permissions to run Eclipse on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
I have tried all the solutions offered on other posts but can not succeed to get Eclipse to run. I am logged in as Administrator. Here is error message when starting Eclipse
sudo eclipse
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Installed Ubuntu but can't change installed files
I installed Ubuntu on Windows 7. Also, I installed GROMACS software. There is some problem with one of the files located in /usr/local/gromacs/share/top/ folder. I want to make some changes to and ...
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password & permission [closed]
UBUNTU 13.04.: Two Members Roby and Kate on the same pc
1. How to delete the password prompt during transition from user Roby to user Kate?
2. How to give the two users the same access privileges ...
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What are the default file permissions for the Ubuntu One folder?
I was playing around with the 'chown' command. In my home folder /home/frank I ran
sudo chown -R root 'Ubuntu One'.
How can I restore the default file permissions of that folder? I want to be ...
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When I create files using < touch > command, files are now all locked. What changed?
I am a new user of Linux and am using Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail.
I really like the malleability of this operating system despite the fact that the common opinion, according to general information ...
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Struggling with remote (x2g0) access and app permissions (dbus/polkit/)
Rather rashly, I finally decided to upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04. Fairly painless. However some old problems have returned, and I am unable to fix them this time.
I access my machine exclusively using ...
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guest account permissions impede gnome-terminal and externalmonitor
In a guest account:
there was an error creating the child process for this terminal //
grantpt failed: permission denied
is the error I get on starting gnome-terminal from F2.
I also can't use an ...
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NTFS-3G permissions and inherit fstab flag
I'm trying to user a NTFS filesystem with full ACS's set just like windows.
Everything is working fine except the permissions set to created files.
Here is my environment:
fstab:
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K3b - cdrecord has no permission
I use Ubuntu 12.04. Today I tried to burn an ISO file in a DVD-R disk using K3b. It used to work, but today, after one and a half minutes, it stopped saying that "cdrecord has no permission to open ...
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VirtualBox shared folder is accessible but not workable
On my host system (Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit), I installed VirtualBox (4.2.12) and installed Ubuntu 12.04 32 Bit as guest system. I also installed the VirtualBox guest utilities to create shared folders.
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Ubuntu Server 12.04: can't write to nfs share
I have installed a small home server running 12.04, now trying to configure an NFS share with Webmin version 1.620. I have gradually lowered the security on the share to basically nil, yet any write ...
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Cant open second hard disk “permission denied”
I just did a clean install of 13.04 and now cant open any hard disks or hard disk partitions, it says "permission denied". I can open them as root but when I try and change the permissions it says I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 changing permissions External Hard Drive from Terminal
I am attempting to rescue files from a broken system via the root terminal of the recovery console.
I have a seagate 2TB external hard drive. Output of "sudo fdisk -l":
/dev/sdb1 is the device boot
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Cannot write to a newly installed hard drive
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10.
My computer has 2 hard drives. The OS is on one and I want to use the second for movies and music.
I formatted the the second drive ( dev/SDC1) as Ext4 with the label ...
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image from webserver is not shown in web browser
I am new ubuntu and recently I install 'xampp 1.8.1' on my ubuntu 12.10. My problem is that image from server can not be shown. My code is
<div class="sideBlock unSung">
<h4>Unsung ...
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How can I access my Mac OSX home folder on my macbook?
First of all, I'm not under ubuntu, but Pear OS 7, (quantal based).
I have a macbook pro 5,5 (late 2009) with an SSD where there are the OSX and Pear OS partitions, and an HDD where I store my OSX ...
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File/Folder Permissions lost after restart hence file not displayed in file browser
After restarting my laptop, I have observed that some of the files in my hard drive disappeared on their own, and they seem to reappear after multiple restarts. This has happened mostly to files which ...
