Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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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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Sublime Text 2 Permission Denied
I use a Papyrus package with Sublime Text 2, but when I try to compile a file by pressing ctrl+B or F7 I get a permission error;
[Errno 13] Permission denied
[cmd: [u'/home/sde/.wine/drive_c/Program ...
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udev hide partition in nautilus for specific user/group
I'm trying to hide a partition form a specific group of users in Ubuntu 12.04.
I have created a new rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-disk.rules with
KERNEL="sda3",ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
...
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How do I share USB VFAT Drive with other users?
I want to share pictures between my wife and me, on an external USB drive. The OS is ubuntu 12.04. The drive is a Western Digital 500 GB and sudo blkid /dev/sdc1 return LABEL="My Book" ...
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how to remove a group and its users
I tried to create the svn user in my server,and I create a new group svn and add the current user maven to the group svn.
sudo groupadd svn
sudo chgrp svn /usr/local/svn/repos
sudo usermod -a -G svn ...
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Have to set permissions on every startup
I just installed a fingerprint library called libfprint. After installing, you have to set the permissions up to access the scanner.
I thought that this would be permanent but every time I restart I ...
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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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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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Does enabling ACLs have an effect on performance?
I'm looking at a web application that needs ACLs enabled. Are there any benchmarks or other documents to show what potential impact ACL does{n't} have when the file system is under heavy load?
Also, ...
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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 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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Unable to delete file from read-only file system
I cannot delete files, when I tried to delete the file, this message appeard:
"Error while deleting. There was an error deleting file2.rar."
This is what I get from clicking on SHOW MORE ...
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How do I change the default permissions for automounted USB media?
tl;dr:
How do I make gnome automount USB devices with permissions so that everyone in the group can access them instead of just one user that is logged in at the time the USB storage is plugged in?
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Ubuntu Server 12.04: can't write to nfs share
I have installed a small home server running 12.04, now trying to configure an NFS share with Webmin version 1.620. I have gradually lowered the security on the share to basically nil, yet any write ...
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Cannot write to a newly installed hard drive
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10.
My computer has 2 hard drives. The OS is on one and I want to use the second for movies and music.
I formatted the the second drive ( dev/SDC1) as Ext4 with the label ...
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Samba shares, using smb.conf or /var/lib/samba/usershare
Ok, so I caused my own problem by trying to be funny. And now I am very confused about how to fix it.
So here we go:
Our server has had 2 open shares since day one. only one of them offered windows ...
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How do I copy files with SCP to /var/www?
I need to copy files from my computer to my server's folders in /var/www so they are uploaded to my cloud. Here's what I try to do:
I open my computer's terminal and type:
scp ...
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Ubuntu one on the Mac always resets the permission on an update
Here is what is does:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 heyl staff 2199 Apr 9 10:13 /Users/heyl/bin/scramble.pl
becomes
-rw-r--r-- 1 heyl staff 2200 Apr 10 15:23 /Users/heyl/bin/scramble.pl
after Ubuntu One ...
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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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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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Configure vsftpd to chown uploaded files
I have vsftpd up and running on my Ubuntu server. This is a development server and I want to be able to FTP my code directly to the directory which Apache is serving out.
As most of you know, ...
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Problem understanding file permissions
I have a problem understanding some aspects of file permissions. The situation is this:
I created a directory as /to using sudo and then changed it's permissions to drwxrwsr-x. I also changed the ...
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Nautilus Error 22688 and power management
I have seen questions covering the various types of dismissable warnings such as this #255 error:
mfg@paprika:~/Websites$ gksudo nautilus
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it ...
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how do i gain acceess to a drive that owned by deleted user on ubuntu 11.10?
I did some trial on command line and creating a user account from it, then I logged off and logging to that newly created account (let us call it newaccount). Then I mounted one of my drive (I named ...
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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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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 ...
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Give permissions for packages downloaded from the internet and lock them in Ubuntu 12.04 sidebar
I downloaded NetBeans IDE and Eclipse IDE from the internet and installed then. Well, the Eclipse IDE works fine, but when I execute NetBeans IDE directly from the shortcut, without sudo permission, ...
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Access to external usb hard drive mounted in KDE other user
Before kubuntu 12.10 i had Gentoo and in KDE's plugged devices widget i mounted devices and them was accessible by other user in other KDE sessions. But in kubuntu external hdd mounted with ownership ...
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Permissions on automounted NTFS drive
I have an external NTFS hard drive. It automounts with rwx rights for the active user.
I am able to create directories, update files, write to existing files, change names of files, etc.
What isn't ...
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mounting CIFS share appears to work, but then prevents writing after a few seconds
I've got a NAS that is setup with CIFS and open guest access. I mounted it in fstab with the following line
//192.168.0.101/Stor1 /media/freenasbox cifs ...
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How can I get samba users from the same group to edit each others files?
I'm setting up my first linux fileserver for Windows clients and am having some problems properly setting up the shares. I have a shared folder via Samba where multiple users (who are organized by ...
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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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Why don't I have permission to read files on the CD I bought?
I recently bought this book, which came with an accompanying CD. When I try to view the contents of the CD in Ubuntu, I don't have read permission for any of the files. ls -al in the root of the CD ...
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How to use debugfs as root?
I wish to recover a deleted file from my ext2 partition. The tools extundelete and testdisk are unsuccessful.
Now I try to use debugfs as
$ debugfs /dev/sda5
but I get Permission denied while ...
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Changing external hard drive permissions to read and write Maxtor One-Touch 750 GB
I have 12.04. New to the command line. I have an external hard drive that works on one of my computers, but I'd like to use it with another. When I try to put files onto it, it tells me that it's read ...
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How can I repair these permissions and directories Screwed Up Userafter renaming a user?
The PC I'm working with originally had a user. I changed the user name to Administrator and selected the option to remove existing user files. When I rebooted I get the error
Could not update ...
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Permissions to access external HDD
I have an external HDD which has an encrypted ext4 filesystem.
When I plug it into one of my laptops and provide the encryption password, I get this popup box saying "You do not have permissions ...
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Can't open files from external device
I reinstalled my system last weekend and saved some files on a external device. The problem is i cant open this files anymore, even i start nautilus as root and change the file and folder permissions ...
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my User not a part of any system group
i was trying something on my ubuntu 12.04 ...
basically trying to get my PLex mediaserver to detect movies from network shares
and i thought to add my user and root to group plex that the server ...
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Configure owner and permissions for upstart log files
When logging an upstart job with the standard console log stanza, can the resulting log files in /var/log/upstart be configured to be written with a mode or owner other than the default?
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disabling root permissions
From Linux From Scratch build a minimal system for running my application. but struck on disabling root permission.
Need my minimal lfs as ubuntu.
when ubuntu boots login-screen displays when we ...
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How to setup FTPS server in Ubuntu
At the moment I'm trying to setup a vsftpd server on 12.04 to allow users to login/download files via ftps to aid testing during some development work.
When I attempt to connect using FileZilla in ...
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Desperate with Apache2 and cgi (Ubuntu 12.04). Help :(
Im having an issue installing apache2 in Ubuntu 12.04. Im trying to set the cgi-bin folder in the path /home/www/cgi-bin. Ive followed and search all over the internet but I still dont get it...
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Mysql Datadir on different hard drive
I'm currently running Ubuntu 13.04 and MySQL 5.5. I have been using InnoDB, and the default location for installation. The problem is that my main OS partition is fairly small (36GB), and I need to ...
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SAMBA: Why can't Windows write in Samba shares?
I've made a clean install of XBMCbuntu on an HTPC and then installed Gnome and Samba.
Now I can not write the XBMCbuntu default shares (movies, tv shows, pictures, etc.) using a Windows machine.
...
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Why does file owner and group keep changing to root?
I am running an install of CakePHP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The way certain files are accessed I need permissions set a certain way within my install of Ubuntu. Nothing out of the ordinary.
The problem ...
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Unable to add a serial printer
I intended to add a serial printer but failed in Ubuntu 12.04.
As to use serial port for user account needs to add user to dialout group, the problem is after adding user in the dialout group, there ...
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samsung scx-4828 scanner works only with sudo
I use ubuntu 12.04
I have samsung scx-4828fn scaning and printing device. Printing works fine. Scanning works only with sudo. Also sane-find-scanner works only with sudo. Please see output:
found ...
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Permission denied error on WebDAV mount for two identical users
I have a (webdav share mounted as:
server owncloud_folder davfs defaults,uid=fsi,gid=fsi,dir_mode=2775,file_mode=664 0 0
There are two users with the following gid/uids:
uid=1049(tobias) ...
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“Failed to setuid to root.” How do I Establish a VPN network?
My university decided that the old VPN-network, which worked fine, wasn't good enough anymore and abandoned it. Now I have to establish a completely new VPN-network. My university provided me with a ...
