Questions tagged [permissions]
Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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Running the command sudo -u postgres createuser -d -R -S $USER I get the message could not change directory to "/home/odoo": Access denied in Ubuntu22
I am trying to install postgresql on Ubuntu 22.04 and to do so I run the following command
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-client
followed by that (in the next prompt) I execute the following
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How it possible to grant access in Auroura app?
When I wanted to run the Auroura app (I downloaded and installed it from this) to manage the keyboard backlight in Ubuntu 22.04, unfortunately, after many clicks on "Grant Access" nothing ...
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Permission issue while installing latest mysql server after upgrade from 18.04 to 22.04
I cant install the latest mysql server on my local machine. Everything was working fine before the upgrade (nginx/phpmyadmin etc) but it seems like it removed some things during that (perhaps I ...
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Trouble logging Active Directory from Windows Server 2022 to an Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS
I actually joined the realm, but the problem is when I try to log in with an Active Directory user, I can't. I added the machine to the active directory via installation and everything is ok.
running ...
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Blocking internet access for non-administrative (child) user in Edubuntu
I have setup Edubuntu on a laptop (Edubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur). There is an administrative parent account and a (non-administative) child account. Of course, the application management lets me ...
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snap mjpg-streamer-2 paralell install fails with V4L interface: Permission denied
My computer in the shop has two ubs cameras attached and working fine. Now I am trying to use mjpg-streamer to send both cameras feed to zoneminder on a second computer in the house.
I have two ...
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Files inside of External storage won’t show in nextcloud (Snap Package)
The following two are snapshots of my file explorer:
As you can see from the attached images files within my hard drive aren't showing in nextcloud but do show in other places. It is added through ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 login loop, Failed to start GNOME Display Manager
I'm facing an issue with my Ubuntu system. GNOME Display Manager fails to start at boot and I am unable to login into another tty. Any attempt to login will get me back to credentials prompt.
The only ...
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Is it possible to use gedit on a remote file with root permissions?
As titled, I'd like to open (and edit) remote text files with root permissions using the local text editor (gedit)
I know about nautilus-admin, but it doesn't seem to work, unfortunately
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How to let Firefox access system files?
I am trying to package an HTML user guide with my app.
Currently, it is placed in /etc/oqm/static/guide.html, with read permissions set to all.
However, firefox doesn't seem to have access to it.
I ...
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I cannot Access sudo on my ubuntu VM
When I try to get my account to admin, Every way everyone used to open admin, did not work for me.
When i tried sudo -i or sudo su, it gave me this output,
usbuser123@Ubuntu2USB:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] ...
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How to change permission for Sysfs file using udev rules
I am writing a custom module kernel that boots at startup. I can write in the sysFS file using this :
echo -e "(0,0,255,750)\n" | sudo tee /sys/fs/led_sysfs/led_value
But I will have ...
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Samba: Second User permission denied
i set up Samba on my home server to share a directory. I can easily access the network drives of samba with my first user (which is also my main user on the server). The second can't access any of ...
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How to solve this error: Unexpected error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles'
I am using Ubuntu 20.04. When conduction a host-check the following error message appears:
ERROR -- Linux Security Modules
Unexpected error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/sys/kernel/security/...
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sudo chgrp and sudo chmod will be reset after reboot
quick summary:
I met some problem during my work on OrangePi 5 plus develop board, the operation like chgrp and chmod will be reset as default after reboot. I installed official Ubuntu 22.04 image ...
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How to change permissions (chmod)?
I have created a folder not in /home but on other volume which is free (eventually I'd like to share the folder via Samba).
I have found the path:
/media/xduser/kingstone
I did:
cd /media/xduser/...
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How do I share a folder between Ubuntu 22.04 (client) and Windows 7 (guest) using qemu-kvm
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 on a homemade PC: AMD Ryzen, Gigabyte X570 motherboard with a Samsung 980 Pro SSD. I've already created a few shared folders via Samba, but I'm often given the "you don't ...
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Unable to access a Samba shared folder
I've been trying to make a local backup of all my family's photos and videos for easy access due to how sluggish Dropbox has become. When I set up the Samba shared folder this showed up:
What's worse,...
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Common admin commands?
I usually work with administrator access privileges on my Ubuntu workstations. On a new machine, I've recently been offered only a normal user account; and asked to provide a list of admin-level ...
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How to grant full access to any new folders/files/subfolders created in a specific folder?
I have granted full access to a folder as follows:
sudo chmod 777 -R /media/sharedfolder
However when a new subfolder is created by User A, that subfolder is not accessible by other users. How can I ...
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Weird behaviour smb.conf create mask
I have set up a samba share to connect with windows 11.
I tried to change the default permissions to -RW-RW---- with create mask = 0660
But i get -RW-R-----.
When i try create mask = 0460 i get -R--RW-...
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Share directory in Ubuntu22.04 for Windows users: not all users have access
I have made as described there
How to share directory in Ubuntu22.04 for Windows users
Finally I can access from Windows station to the shared folder (Ubuntu). Great.
But the same windows user on ...
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Cannot run steam on Ubuntu 22.04
So my problem is that when I restart my computer, steam firstly can be runned. But after some time(about 1 minute or so) it lags and just doesn't do anything at all. Shutting down doesn't help due to ...
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fstab mount no longer working
I have an ubuntu share that I use infrequently. The last time I used it was about 11 months ago. At the time it worked. I tried searching a solution but I could not find a solution.
I have the ...
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wrong permissions on server after upgrade to new OS on LAMP server
after our LAMP server upgraded the OS I am finding that the permissions are wrong on the server, and it cannot display the file (404 error), until I change the permissions.
It was working fine before ...
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Prevent sudo useres changing root user password
I'm a newbie here.
I have deployed a Linux server and I wanted to add other users to it. Then those users must able to install applications on the said server. To do that those users must have root ...
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sudo doesn't working in Ubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]
I am going to update packages in Ubuntu 22.04 terminal.
sudo apt update
But I get errors like this.
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for user:
tester is not in the sudoers ...
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CIFS Windows 10 mount is read only
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS trying to mount (CIFS/Samba) an NTFS drive on Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3693). I actually have it working on one of the Windows drives, but have run ...
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arm used ubuntu:23.10, docker build faild, start container with --privileged ok
build image base ubuntu:23.10 error
W: GPG error: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports mantic InRelease: At least one invalid signature was encountered.
E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com/...
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can not share a folder between ubuntu 22.04 and windows 11,
I am trying to share a folder between Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11.
The folder that I am trying to share is the public folder inside my home directory.
I can see that in Ubuntu the shared logo (the ...
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Deja-dup asks for administrator authentication
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, installed and managed by my workplace.
I have set up backup on my home folder only, each day.
Regardless, an authentication dialogue is opened each time:
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Ubuntu File Permsissions
I created three users bob, alice and eve and added them to groups defend, attack and evil respectively. Eve should not be able to read or write any file not created by her but bob and alice should be ...
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How do I get cifs mounts to not have all the files owned by root?
I have researched this problem and found advise to use the uid argument, but it is not helping.
/etc/fstab:
//192.168.0.234/Backups /home/mark/Backups cifs vers=3.0,credentials=/root/.smbCredentials ...
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Problem changing owner and permissions on new external drive
I just installed a new 2TB external drive (Ubuntu 20.04), created one partition, and formatted it to ext4. I mounted it to /mnt/ssk2TB. Now the drive shows in my Nautilus file explorer, but when I ...
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Info.php in the root directory of my website forbidden
I wanted to check the used php version with a info.php file in the root directory of my Mautic installation, but i get an error: https://ma.stefan-franz.de/info.php
File content: <?php phpinfo(); ?&...
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sshd_config , added AllowGroups sshusers but users can still ssh
I changed /etc/ssh/sshd_config and added line AllowGroups sshusers but all users can still ssh. (I tried also AllowUsers and DenyUsers, but it seems that it is the same. The config is completely ...
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MySQL SQLSTATE root and normal login not function
Hello guys i have little problem with MySQL and Pterodactyl. When i try add databases i got this problem.
There was an error while trying to connect to the host or while executing a query: "...
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Can't run apt commands: permissions fun with /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
Today I tried running sudo apt-get update on our Ubuntu 22.04 server and got the following:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy ...
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22.04 Webcam permissions are reset on boot
I can only access my webcam(s) with sudo rights with cheese.
ls -l /dev/video0
outputs:
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Nov 13 15:18 /dev/video0
same for video1.
When setting
sudo chmod 666 /dev/...
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Want to execute a script irrespective of the directory where this script is present or html file is present
Actually my script is present under the path /home/user/bin/script.sh and when I run the above script named as script.sh, the script will show html file in Firefox web page.
But the problem here is ...
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Restrict user to access other directory and file in NFS server
I have one NFS server which will share to mutiple NFS client. The requirment is isolate each cilent ,make sure they could not access other's file. But the problem is NFS export could not restrict that....
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How to allow both a user and root to access directory? [duplicate]
How can I make /media/creeper39x/TB-Drive be owned by creeper39x, but root have access?
Could I have a group with creeper39x and root in it??
Please help.
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Apache2 permission denied on Ubuntu
My apache2.conf:
DefaultRuntimeDir ${APACHE_RUN_DIR}
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${...
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chromium download tray
Chromium moved the download tray from the bottom of the screen to the right side of the address bar. How to bring back old tray?
Previously I did the following below:
To restore the old Chrome ...
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How to let ZFS users create their own datasets?
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 in a VM, and I have followed the instructions here for creating a ZFS pool.
However, the commands to create, mount and unmount zfs datasets all appear to require root. I ...
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How to create a common working folder where users can collaborate and edit the same files
We have some EDA software that is used by many people.
As a team, we want to be able to edit and work on the same files (binary). Say, I create an electrical schematic, I save it, I simulate it. Apart ...
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Permission is denied by Windows in VMware in Ubuntu
I am sharing a Windows folder with an Ubuntu guest OS in VMware. When I edit the file that is located in the shared folder of Windows in Ubuntu, it gives a permission denied error in the below ...
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How do I set the permissions of a samba share I mount via GNOME GUI?
When I mount a samba share on my NAS via the Gnome UI, it creates a folder named 'smb-share:server=192.168.1.1,share=data' in the /run/user/1000/gvfs folder.
The permission of this folder are ...
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How can snap applications view the manual permissions they have been granted?
Is there a method for a Snap app to introspect its own permissions?
I've built an app that requires the raw-usb permission to flash firmware on microcontrollers. Without it, the app does not work and ...
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SSH Permission denied, with password
I have a machine running Ubuntu 23.10 and I'm trying to ssh into a server not under my control.
I was given an username and a password to access it.
In order to prepare the setting, after generate the ...