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Why can't I set group and ownership of one folder without afffecting the other?
I've upgraded an Ubuntu PC from 10.04 to 12.04.
Problem is all the permissions were wrong on the home folders.
So, I did the following:
sudo chown -R james:james /home/james/*
sudo chown -R ...
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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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Lost Permission of Home Directory
I recently messed up my Ubuntu Setup, so I re-installed and choose to use my existing Home directory .
Now I cannot launch Ubuntu-Tweak as myself, but am able to do so with sudo command.
Any help ...
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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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Home directory lost the execute permission flag. What can cause this?
Did anyone ever experienced a home directory mysteriously becoming non-executable?
The context:
Ubuntu 10.04. The vsftpd server is installed and running.
I have created a regular user ftp_poze.
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Home folder in `root` and not in `home`… I'm confused!
I have an issue with my home folder and this are giving me some permission problems.
I've installed an application that tells me that I have no permission to save in /home/username/Desktop, but in ...
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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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How do I delete files on the “ubuntu” live user from root?
I am running Ubuntu builder and I have everything set up the way I like, however I can't seem to clean up after changing anything. I can't get access to the /home/ubuntu folder because the "home" ...
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Default home directory permission allow read? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why can other users see the files in my home folder?
I need help with some basic permissions logic. I noticed that default permissions for a home folder are drwxr-xr-x.
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What purpose does the Public folder serve
In default Home directory, there is a folder called Public. What purpose does that serve?
Are documents in that folder accessible to all users on the same computer?
What are the default permissions ...
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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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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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How do I list the public files in my home directory? (mode 777)
I want to get the list of all the files in my home folder, having rwx (read-write-execute) or 777 permissions for everyone.
Also, what is the command to know the permissions of a file?
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Unable To Write To Samba Home Directories
So I have samba setup and running on my Ubuntu box. I've successfully logged in on my WinXP machine, and was able to browse my home directories but an unable to create files, folders, etc. No write ...
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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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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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Why can't I open files and locations across a home network?
I have figured out how to get my two Ubuntu 11.04 machines to see each other, and I can look through shared files but when I go to open say a song in a shared music file I get an error message saying
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Changing my Home folder's owner
I recently updated my ubuntu to 11.04 and have run into an issue. I decided to do a fresh install instead of an upgrade and made my username different from my last. Now everything has my past ...
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Allowing apache access to a subdirectory in a home directory without access to the home directory
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 desktop with encrypted home directories. I do development work on my computer and I want to have my webroot directory to be within my home directory so it is encrypted with ...
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Cannot list Home folder
All of a sudden I can't access my home folder. I am using ubuntu 10.04.
I can access the folders inside it ( Desktop, Videos etc ) but if I want to see inside the home itself ( either in Nautilus or ...
