Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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How Will App Permissions be Handled in Ubuntu Touch?
Most elements of the hardware, or data sets shared between apps on the Android and iOS platform are controlled strongly, and only provided to apps explicitly on a need-to-know basis. This can allow ...
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Need help for locking down linux desktop
Good morning all.
So I work with a disabled guy and he has a computer. This guy asked for assistance, I put windows xp on his computer and I discovered that he loves deleting files (he managed to ...
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User permissions on upload directory
Uploading files via my website fails because apache is not recognized as having write access. However, my permissions show otherwise. Any ideas?
When uploading via script, the script returns
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Postfix master.lock: permission denied
I'm triyng setup the postfix, but with no success.
I am using webmin to configure.
my problem is that postfix won't start, always with the same message:
Mar 19 19:21:13 site ...
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Start vim automatically as root in home folder
Is it possible to start vim automatically with root permission if I start it in my home folder (or in a subdirectory of that folder)?
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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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Npm errors when installing packages on windows share
I have Ubuntu 12.10 running as a VMware guest on my Windows 8 host.
I have shared a folder on my Windows 8 Host and it is mounted in the Ubuntu guest on startup using this entry in fstab:
...
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How Do I Change Permissions On Folder And Files?
I've edited this post to hopefully make it clearer to anyone trying to help
drwxr-xr-x [tutorials]
-rwxr--r-- [helpguide.txt]
When the above are copied over from the Dell laptop, they appear ...
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Permission Issues with command in rc.local
I am using a command to start a screen session and run a bash script for a user.
/bin/su username -c "/usr/bin/screen -dmS test bash -c '/home/username/test.sh; exec bash'"
When I boot, I am seeing ...
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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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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 can I change the permissions of a folder from create or delete to list files only on a NTFS partition?
I have many NTFS partitions on my PC.
If I change the permissions of a folder on a NTFS partition from "create and delete files" to "list files only", its permissions will return to "create and ...
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Samba File Sharing with Departmental Policy Configuration
our employees need to share some files. I'd like ask if Samba can be configured with the way we need for the shared folder. Let's say we have three departments.
HR Department
Only people who know ...
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Is /etc/sudoers file only suppose to have read only permissions?
-r--r----- 1 root root 723 Jan 31 2012 sudoers
My dist-update frequently fails.
At boot my system frequently asks for file system check. (My system-hardware is file)
I am using
vksTP ...
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0answers
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Interactive permission
What are all the meanings of Interactive in the permissions tab. I like Libre Office a free word program but the Permissions tab lists interactive. What do they mean?
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Permissions for Video folder for minidlna?
I have a secondary hard drive that is mounted as /media/Media and I would like to user a folder called Videos located on that drive that I would like to share the videos located on this folder out via ...
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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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Problem when changing permissions of a folder in a NTFS filesystem
While trying to make a DAAP server work, with tangerine, I realized that my music library doesn't has read permissions for all users, but has all the permissions for the owner and the group (tangerine ...
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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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1answer
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How to solve the access permission problem for any folders in ubuntu?
How to do I solve the access permission problem for any folders in Ubuntu??
I am currently trying to copy a folder from one Ubuntu to another Ubuntu machine using "scp" command.
scp -r foldername ...
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Files won't show up in DLNA end point (Samsung TV)
I have installed both XBMC and miniDLNA in an effort to have a DLNA server to stream videos from my machine to my samsung tv. The TV recognizes both XBMC and miniDLNA under its source, but when I go ...
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Change files permissions
I would like to know how to change permissions for all my files. I don't understand why some come with ''read'' only... I'm the only one that uses the PC, so the max permissions would be good!
I ran ...
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Why can a new user not write to external Hard Drive?
I installed Precise Pangolin using this guide. I created a user account for my wife and a guest account. I formatted and mounted an external hard drive to the server. I created several file shares ...
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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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What groups are required to give a user permission to set up new wifi networks?
I have a few Ubuntu Precise laptops that I manage. I give normal users a non-privileged account, but occasionally they need to access new wifi networks.
I don't want them to have full root/sudo ...
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Error while starting hadoop
When I try to run hadoop as bin/start-all.sh, I get this error.:
mkdir: cannot create directory /home/prasanna/Desktop/hadoop/libexec/../logs: Permission denied
chown: cannot access ...
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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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2answers
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trying to have a group be able to read/write to a directory
First I'm a NEWBIE - I'm using a Bitnami stack to deploy a Rails app.
Bitnami has the rails applications in /opt/bitnami/projects.
I created a group called deployers. My login is bitnami. So, I ...
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Messed Up My Hard Drive
I installed Ubuntu yesterday and was trying to setup Plex Media Server. I wanted to give Plex Server r-x rights. So I typed the following command
zohaib@zohaib-Inspiron-N5010:/media/zohaib$ chmod -R ...
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1answer
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Share directory between users [duplicate]
I am trying to share a directory between two users. The directory is at /reports. I have created a group (addgroup reports), changed the group of the directory, changed the permissions of /reports to ...
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1answer
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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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Is it safe to chown `/usr/local`?
I know what /usr/local is for - installing software for the local machine. By default, root owns the directory. This means that to install there, you need to use sudo. For a single-user or developer ...
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Postfix fatal: open lock file /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: cannot open file: Permission denied
I have recently installed postfix and while configuring the server have run into an issue. At one point I received the error from my syslog,
fatal: open lock file /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: cannot ...
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Is it possible to make a file that has full permissions for everybody but is impossible to delete?
Without using sudo, preferably?
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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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can't scan videos with mythbuntu 12.04.2 + updates
I'm in the process of updating my system. Have been using Mythdora prior, so new to Mythbuntu. I installed mythbuntu 12.04.2 desktop amd64 and let it update during the install. The default path for ...
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Unable to Use External Hard Drive (NTFS Formatted)
I installed Lubuntu 12.10 earlier today on an old machine I have lying around. I've never really used this variation of Ubuntu before and was hoping I could get some (straightforward) steps on how to ...
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How do I recover files from an Ubuntu partition for which I am not the “owner”?
Good day,
I've recently experienced an odd problem where for reasons that escape me my graphics configuration has been corrupted. I've tried going through the menu option that I am offered ...
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sync failure with Unison
I have set up my harddrive with three logical drives: /,/home and /media/backup. My intent was to store all my documents on the /home drive (folder) and to backup this drive to the /media/backup ...
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Symfony2 cache permissions issue ubuntu 12.10
i have install lampp 1.8.1 in /opt/lampp.Everything is working fine.
i added my current user as owner to the htdocs folder so that i can write to htdocs folder.
then i created my symfony2 project. ...
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1answer
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How can my app request sudo permissions when installed from the Software Center?
I have written a USB over IP server for Ubuntu and want to deploy it via the Ubuntu Software Center
However for the app to run, it requires sudo access to udev files. Is there anyway to get sudo ...
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Sharing a Second Hard Drve with Windows using Samba
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 32bit with the intention of using it to share hard drives across an office of Windows 7 computers. I've set up an initial share on the hard drive Ubuntu was installed from ...
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2answers
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How to fix a permissions problem on www folder?
I have created a directory in my www folder using terminal and root user.
Then, create some text files in that folder (with terminal and root user).
Now, when I want to access these files and ...
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vsftpd chroot opps on ubuntu 12.04
I'm unfamiliar with deb based systems, so my apologies if the solution is simple.
I'm trying to setup vsftpd to jail users to their home directories. I get the 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with ...
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1answer
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Preventing a specific application from accessing a folder
I just installed an application that has the bad habit of automatically scanning all my folders for files to edit.
The app has no available options to disable this behavior. I cannot just remove ...
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Permissions question for lighttpd [duplicate]
Ok, I thought I understood linux permissions and users and groups and all that, but I'm very confused about something. I've installed lighttpd, and left it's default dir at /var/www with cgi enabled ...
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How can I get root-like permissions so I can download stuff from the software center?
When downloading an application from the terminal it said I couldn't download it because I wasn't root, and when I got to search for the specific software in the Ubuntu software center it doesn't even ...
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mask and effective?
What is a mask and effective at output?
getfacl /var/www:
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
file: var/www
owner: Name
group: Name
user::-wx
user:Test:rwx
...
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How to change the location that MongoDB uses to store its data?
I edited the MongoDB config file to store it's data in /home/user/data/mongod.
But data is still written to the old directory, supposedly because the permissions to the new folder are not granted - ...
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Why does Ubuntu apply separate permissions to partitions mounted with the same parameters?
Here's my partition setup. I've shortened the UUIDs for readability, and, before anyone asks, I've carefully checked that I copied the correct UUIDs into /etc/fstab.
me@ubuntu:/$ sudo blkid
...
