Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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Give access to a specific user to a specific folder within a group? [Terminal]
I have created a file, admin, that I want to assign to a group, admingroup, and later on give a specific user, adminuser, exclusive access to that file but I have no idea how.
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How to get permissions to compile a C program from NTFS hard drive?
I have this problem: I'm used to compile and run .c files with codeblocks. If I do that from my Desktop (ext partition) it works without problems, but doing this from my secondary hard drive (NTFS ...
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How can I execute scripts as root without pointing to its location?
I tend to use sudo arp-scan --localnet --interface wlan0 a lot, but I find it cumbersome to type this each time. To speed things up, I've created a script, called arp-lw-scan, which should do this for ...
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Blocking non-admin user from using DVD drive
How can I stop a non-admin user from using the DVD drive (specifically burning DVDs if possible, but all access denied is fine too). I've tried removing them from cdrom group but this did not seem to ...
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Remove sudo password when connecting to *new* WiFi network
So currently when my non-admin user tries to connect to a new WiFi network (e.g. at a cafe say) NetworkManager prompts for the admin user's password. Is there a way to turn this off and to allow the ...
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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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Startup Disk Creator Unable to Access directory
I am trying to create a startup disk from a usb and when I use the startup disk creator, I get an error that says startup disk can not access /tmp/tmp... Can I run this app as admin or root? I've ...
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How do i give permissions to all subfolders of a folder ? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
I am using Ubuntu. Though I have given permission to my htdocs for access and delete. But I want it to be done for any ...
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Why do question mark characters appear when changing the permissions of directory?
I am trying to change permissions of a folder temporarily whose initial permissions are
user@ubuntu:/var/log$ ls -l squid*
squid3:
total 4
-rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy 0 Jan 16 14:43 access.log
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Problem Accessing Old OS X Documents
I have just installed Ubuntu onto my MacBook Pro. I stupidly deleted BootCamp during the Installation which means I am unable to boot back into Mac OS, however my main issue is gaining access to my ...
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How do I get and keep access to encrypted home dir on an external drive?
I have a clean new install of 12.04 on my internal drive. On my external drive I have everything that used to be on this drive. The file I'm concerned with right now is my old home folder from ...
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How do I gain access to these files?
When I open the subfolder of my old home folder that I saved on an external hard drive I don't see any more folders I ree a read me file with this in side.
THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO ...
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chmod and chown a remote NTFS filesystem both fail
Our Ubuntu Server 12.04 system has a remote NTFS filesystem mounted via Samba at /media/blarg.
One of our users had problems writing to the remote system, but not reading from it.
Since the ...
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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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Cannot update/edit any file
Hello friends I cannot update any file under the file system. It says you do not have permissions. I tried to edit files using gedit but it gives me this error... How can I update files in the file ...
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Allow creating directories from applications
I just started using Ubuntu a week ago. I noticed that applications don't have permissions to create directories. E.g. I can't create a new directory from my LibreOffice Writer save as dialog.
Can I ...
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Why can't I delete a file even though I have write permissions?
The shell session should say everything: I can't delete a file (movie.avi) although I have write permissions. I don't get what the problem is. Have I missed something?
confus@homeserver:/home/narur$ ...
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sudo: /var/lib/sudo/navneet writable by non-owner (040777), should be mode 0700
This error occurs whenever I try to work with sudo. I changed the permissions of /var/ folder to 777 and I think this causes the error. Please help me get back a functional sudo and /var.
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How to access and copy files from an old/other Ubuntu system's partition?
I'm getting permission denied when I try to access my old 10.04 partition. I'm trying to get into the home folder so that I can back up the data before I do a fresh install of 12.04.
I know the ...
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How can I give myself permission to edit files in /var/www without having to use the root account or sudo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
Permissions mystify me. I'm worried about compromising the security of my folder, too, since it's public.
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Permission denied Error while copying?
I am trying to copy a file from my Download directory to my Desktop directory; but I am getting the Permission Denied Error. Directory and file permissions doesn't restrict me from copying (Directory ...
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How do I change the permissions for my USBs?
For some reason I have discovered that I can no longer edit any of the data I have on my USBs. I was once able to edit it and I am able to edit the data on it on other PCs. I am running 32 bit 12.10 ...
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700 instead of 755 permissions on auto-mounted USB HDD?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 (kernel 3.5.0-21-generic) on a laptop, and seem to have run into a strange problem with an auto-mounted external FAT32 USB HDD: The permissions of the drive's mount-directory, ...
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Shared mounted folder on standart user can read-only files
I've shared a folder, then logged in to another user and mounted in to ~/Documents. User is Standard, has the group samba.
I have tried a lot of permissions with chown, chmod and so on. The user with ...
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access to drush for all users
How do I set up drush after install via sudo apt-get install drush so that all users on the system have full access to it without getting error messages when they don't use sudo in front of it.
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ln permission denied
So I've set up transmission (the torrent app) to run a script on my torrent to automagically move my torrents and create symlinks to them. This is the script:
#!/bin/bash
curl -d ...
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Best way to put sensitive files on web server and keep them fro being accessible?
I need to put a private key on my web server for use with a php script, so I need the web server to be able to access the file in php script, but not allow users from the outside to be able to access ...
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Delete a file without having permission
Can you delete a file in linux without having nor permission or root access?
Thank you.
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How to change owner and permissions of a folder in desktop
The problem is that the folder directory is /home/marek/Desktop/Tekkitserver/3.1.1 and root has all but 5 file ownership and permissions what are inside it.
It all happened after I launched tekkit ...
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Deluge getting permission denied when trying to download to a mounted drive
Getting permission denied when trying to download or move_storage of a torrent to a mounted drive (saw the error with deluded).
The drive is an internal HDD mounted with this command at /etc/fstab.
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“cannot create directory `JAVA': Permission denied ” how to solve this issue?
can anybody help me in solving this issue. I am new to Linux and here's
problem:
gourab@gourab-RV509:/usr/share/java$ cd /
gourab@gourab-RV509:/$ cd usr
gourab@gourab-RV509:/usr$ mkdir JAVA
mkdir: ...
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Linux Ubuntu Installation: Error Occured Permsion denied. Can't Install. All help appreciated :)
Well I have been wanting to upgrade from xp to Linux Ubuntu for a while now and after waiting 4 hours for it to download the installation quits and an error message pops up and say: An error occurred ...
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Can I have a user execute sudo commands without being an administrator? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add a user to the “sudo” group?
I recently became a UNIX admin for some relatives, and they are quite far up the creek on how to use ubuntu. I know that one key ...
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sccs returns 'Permission denied'
I installed and set up the package "cssc", but when I try to use sccs with the command "sccs create filename" I receive the message "Permission denied". The exit status of the command is 69, which I ...
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How can I reset the permissions of /var?
My friend did a chmod -R 777 /var by mistake. Now he has his /var folder permissions like this:
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Dec 29 17:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 10 11:15 ..
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Permanent permission change to sys file
I'd like to always give my user the permission to write on a specific file located in the /sys folder.
This because in the solution I posted here I have the problem that every time I reboot I have to ...
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External USB hard drive formatted E2fs/E3fs permissions
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop computer. I have an external USB disk drive formatted E2fs/E3fs by another linux system (specifically a Linksys NSLU2 running stock Linksys firmware). From the ...
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How can i recover sudo permission?
I am new to Ubuntu.
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a fujitsu amilo 1536 notebook, and it works just fine.
To extract a tar archive I need root privileges but I can't get them. I can't use sudo ...
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/var/www permission problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to “/var/www”?
I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, and Linux in particular. I want to use Ubuntu for web development mostly, so I went ...
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How can I mark an external drive as not read-only?
I have an external 320GB Samsung drive, which got marked as read only after I put a system on suspend a while back and then pulled the drive out. I had forgotten to unmount the drive before doing so, ...
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Permissions fail to change, even using sudo nautilus
I've read a lot of threads here but still can't seem to make this work: I'm trying to share various folders (any folders whatsoever) on HDDs other than "File System" over the LAN using fresh install ...
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how do I change permissions?
On my new install of Ubuntu 12.10, I keep having to enter passwords for EVERYTHING! I am the only user on this computer, and I am tired of having to enter all these passwords, can anyone help?
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Why am I unable to edit a file on a windows share (cifs)?
I am mounting a Windows network drive to my Ubuntu machine and I am getting write permission errors when trying to edit a file.
sudo mount -t cifs
gives me
//MEDIASERVER/A on ...
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Required information about Permissions [closed]
Being a new user I unknowingly issue the command sudo chmod 777 /opt Now after this some of the application installed in /opt failed & crashed ...reading & reading I rewrote the permission in ...
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How to give my user permission to add/edit files on local apache server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make Apache run as current user
I'm setting up my local test server again, and I seem to have forgotten how to successfully set up the LAMP server.
I have ...
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Accidentally changed permissions of /opt, how to undo?
I have accidently unlocked a system file with the command:
sudo chmod 777 /opt
Does anyone know how to undo this action or to lock it again?
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Automount ext4 partition with user permission/ownership (fstab?)
I just installed Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" on my Acer Aspire One D257, creating the partitions:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 2.1G 12G 15% /
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Assign Group rights to folder
Hello I am new with ubuntu and I have a question.
I created a user ABC. I created a group XYZ. I added user ABC to group XYZ .
I have a folder mounted mydrive. I mounted it under as I have attached ...
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What kind of FileSystem do you recommend for USB Flash Drive?
This is a problem I'm having when using Ubuntu: I have two computers that have Ubuntu installed on them (comp1 and comp2). I create a document with Ubuntu on comp1 and then copy the file onto a FAT ...
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Trying to share files to windows from a mounted drive
This question is a variation on what I asked in an earlier post that did not work for me or I did not quite understand the response. I have done a little more investigation so I hope I can ask a more ...
