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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Writable permission is not 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/
But, when I ...
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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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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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Permission denied when other users create files
I have messed up my home directory. I'm using dash as my shell and by myself I can create files just fine, but others can't. I don't think that made sense as it's kind of hard to explain, so hopefully ...
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files disappeared after using chmod
I set my /var/www/wordpress folder to 744 permissions and all of the files within disappeared.
If I right click the /wordpress folder and click properties, it says there are 0 bytes in the folder but ...
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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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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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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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How can I add file create read write and delete for a specific user?
Question:
I need to give file create, read, write and delete access to /var/log for user bind only.
How can I do that, short of allowing read and write and delete access for everybody ?
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How to transfer file permissions from one folder to another?
I did cp -r on a folder (copy), then removed the original. I have a backup with most of the files. How do I restore the permissions of the files & folders on the copy using the backup?
It ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 ...
