Questions tagged [permissions]
Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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"this application is unconfined. It can access all personal files and system resources"
I just installed ubuntu 18.04 and I can't download any app from the store.
Every time up to 15%, it'll stop with this sentence popping out. I appreciate any help!
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Add CAP_SYS_PTRACE for a user in LTS 16
I would like to be able to attach to a process with gdb. The process has my uid, but the executable file is set-gid. So, apparently, I'm learning about PAM. It's my understanding any process ...
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Run nmcli as unprivileged user
I wrote a Python program to switch WiFi connections via the Network Manager dbus interface, which (I believe) is basically equivalent to the nmcli command-line tool. The script (and nmcli) work ...
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How do I allow a group to manage a systemd service using polkit?
I have a service (some-service) on my system that I'd like to allow members of group managers to control (start, stop, restart). I would also allow these users to use PolicyKit instead of sudo for ...
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Preserving file permissions between Ubuntu and WSL
As part of my workflow, I have a dual-boot system with Ubuntu 16.04 for development and Windows 10 for other work. I use WSL 1 for smaller linux tasks when I don't want to reboot into Ubuntu. As part ...
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Allow a regular user to mount VeraCrypt volume without admin privileges
A regular user is unable to mount a VeraCrypt volume without first authenticating with an administrator password. According to the original TrueCrypt documentation, the workaround is to give the user ...
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Why is my hfs partition suddenly mounting read-only, with no way to alter it to read-write?
I am backing up my FreeNAS volume onto a partition of an external WD 4TB My Book, which uses the hfs filesystem and is mounted on my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. Each time the drive is mounted, all ...
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File with strange permissions
I am trying to access an image file in my code, but my code is telling that it does not exist. However, listing the directory where the image is I can see it, but I got the following strange output ...
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Can't login to Samba share with any user other than my own user
I've followed the usual steps for adding a new user to Samba:
create new Linux user with useradd [user]
set its password with passwd [user]
set its Samba password with smbpasswd -a [user]
But when I ...
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Why is update-notifier.desktop scanning /proc/3782/fd without permission?
Why is that, occasionally, update-notifier spits out a large number of "Permission denied" lines in journalctl?
Dec 04 08:55:32 ML systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Succeeded.
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Getting error while running sudo commands, from /etc/sudo.conf file
I want to run commands in terminal with sudo and get in this error for running sudo commands:
sudo su
sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 16 while loading plugin "sudoers_audit"
sudo: ...
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Using setfacl to give a user full permissions on a folder owned by root
How do I give a user to do whatever they please inside /var/www/myapp folder, which is owned by root, considering that I don't want to change the owner?
I have setup TeamCity CI. It runs under user ...
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How can I run dotnet on ubuntu without using sudo?
I've been trying to update the permissions so that I can run a command (specificially dotnet restore). I'm not sure if this issue is specific to running dotnet, or if it is more generic.
I can run ...
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org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.Failed: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.96'}): org.debian.apt.install-or-remove-packages
I'm using a Lenovo 100S Chromebook and I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity). I'm having a problem where I basically have no permissions for anything. Software Center, Software Updater. I ...
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/var/run/user/1000 owned by root
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and having an intermittent problem where /var/run/user/1000 is getting the wrong ownership. UID 1000 is my uid for a standard user, however for some reason the ownership of ...
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How to write a policykit/polkit permission file to programmatically have access to a file in /usr/share
I'm writing an application that needs to read and write an existing file in /usr/share...
If I understood well I need to use Polkit/PolicyKit to ask the system for a permission and ask the user to do ...
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fusermount: mount failed: Permission denied
I'm trying to use google-drive-ocamlfuse to mount my Google Drive to an Ubuntu 13.04 VM I own on remote sever so I can copy some very large project-related files to my work computer. I've been ...
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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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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 /home/anon/Media/...
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How do I mount USB drives as given user automatically?
How do I get my USB drive to auto-mount as owned by 'me' rather than by whomever is logged in to the computer screen at the time? Often I SSH into my computer while someone else is using it, and so ...
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allow wordpress to write to files
I have been having problems recently with an Ubuntu 16.04 x64 VPS when trying to get a web server up and running. I am using apache2 as the web server as I only really have experience in that - will ...
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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, www-...
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Can't unlock users settings 22.04
I am trying to unlock the users settings in Ubuntu 22.04. I want to change the user settings to enable auto login. At the top right corner there is an unlock button. Clinking on it does nothing. I ...
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Google (maybe the browser?) not recognizing USB webcam
First time here, thank you for all your wonderful work.
I run (K)ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and am having a little trouble with my webcam. Cheese, fswebcam, vlc all recognize and start the device, but Google ...
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tmp directory in $HOME with behavior like /tmp
TL;DR: How can I set up either via a bash command executed as user or a bash command executed only once as sudo a temporary directory in $HOME which has the same behavior as the global /tmp directory?
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chattr doesn't work on /run/docker.sock
From my previous question I got a solution that worked that time: sudo chattr +i /run/docker.sock. But right now it doesn't work. I get chattr: operation not supported while reading flags on /run/...
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Git push cannot write to object file - permission denied
I'm on a cloned repo and trying to push to my remote branch.
Committing works just fine, however whenever I try to push I get this:
error: unable to write file ./objects/foo/bar: Permission denied
I ...
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Cannot find Trash folder in Ubuntu 18.04
I have already asked here but nobody was able to respond or provide any answers.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/506687/cannot-find-trash-folder-ubuntu-18-04
I am running a preinstalled ...
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Deleted folder comes back
I am on ubuntu 18.04.
I have a folder (self-created project for website), that is locked.
Only root has access to create and delete.
I did following on folder:
sudo chmod 777 on folder to release ...
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How to hide format option from that menu
How to hide or put a password on formatting partitions to prevent other users from formatting my data accidentally
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Need user permission for the directory after installing snap package
I am creating a snap package of the Dart language sdk. Here is the snapcraft.yaml
name: dart-sdk
version: 2.0.0
summary: Dart Language SDK
description: This includes the Dart SDK
confinement: ...
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Permissions for $HOME/.config for snap
I have inkscape installed as a snap (https://snapcraft.io/). I am trying to save a replacement for $HOME/.config/inkscape/templates/default.svg, but get an error that permission is denied.
My home ...
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Mount Veracrypt volume without having adminstrative privileges
when I try to mount a volume in veracrypt with an non administrative user, veracrypt asks me for:
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So how can I mount veracrypt volumes with an user having no administrative privileges?
The ...
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How do I share a NTFS partition over LAN?
I've set up samba and everything works whenever I share folders that are in my /home directory, but when I try sharing an entire NTFS partition I get access denied on my windows 10 machine. I've tried ...
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/var/spool/cron: chdir: Permission denied
I was using cron for a while on my Ubuntu workstation (16.04 LTS)
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.10.0-37-generic #41~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 6 22:42:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And ...
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After running clonezilla my external HDD is mounted read only
I've run clonezilla (didn't finish and just exit in the middle) and set my dest drive as my /dev/sdd1 2TB I've unmounted using sudo umount /home/partimag/ and now when I mount my external HDD it's ...
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installing python fails with permission denied (using sudo make install)
I tried to install Python 3.6 using this tutorial: https://www.programiz.com/python-programming#run-python-os on ubuntu 14.04.
Running
$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ sudo make ...
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Right permissions to .git directory on server
I am working on deployment of application on ubuntu trusty server. I am using git ssh and web-hooks(deploy-keys) to deploy the code on server after its pushed to the master from local repository,...
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How to run Python program installed system-wide through pip without root privileges?
I have two different Ubuntu computers that both has multiple user accounts. I wanted to try the latest version of the backup program Attic, so I used pip3 to install it—with success. However, I can’t ...
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Can I hide a partition in Nautilus for a 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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Evince complains about missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges, how can I add those privileges
On 22.04, when using evince on the command line to add text annotations to a PDF and then save it, evince complains
The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error while getting peer-to-peer dbus connection:...
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Chromium can't save files to home subfolders
I experience a blocking problem : Chromium (snap install), Chrome (deb package), Firefox (ubuntu's pre-installed) and Telegram (snap) can't save files to custom subfolders in home directory.
Ex. ...
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mysql-workbench-community cannot connect though ssh
I'm having an issue connecting to a mysql server through a ssh tunel and the app crashes.
I have enabled the ssh-keys in the snap permissions dialog but that does not seem to be helping.
Everytime i ...
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Where are Polkit actions documented?
How does one determine the name of a program (application) for Polkit?
In this example (a file in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/)
[My Muon Permissions]
Identity=unix-group:sudo
Action=org....
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Mount Samba from command line as non-root, read/write, without fstab?
Well, I thought this would have been easier, but I simply cannot find whether what I want is doable.
I want to mount a network Samba share from the command line in Ubuntu 20.04 (MATE) - preferably ...
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Desktop file doesn't work
I'm trying to make a desktop file for vcvRack. I have the program and other files saved in ~/.Rack/. The program launches fine when I double click it or launch in from terminal using ./Rack.
The file ~...
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systemd --user fails to start while complaining about permission in ubuntu server 20.04 inside openvz 7
Info about the system.
# systemctl --version
systemd 245 (245.4-4ubuntu3.13)
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +...
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Can't unlock certain GUI system settings + unusual authentication notifications on login and power off
I am running a recent upgrade to 20.04LTS. I am not using the Ubuntu on Wayland session as it won't recognise my login; I'm therefore logging into the Ubuntu session.
Since the upgrade there are a ...
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Change owner through graphical interface in standard Ubuntu (with Gnome Shell)
Users can be confronted with the need to change ownership of a drive. One obviously can use the terminal, but is there currently a supported way to change ownership using a graphical tool in Ubuntu ...
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Can a regular user find out processes of another user (regular or superuser)
Researching through posts, I noticed that any user can query system to find out processes that belong to others. Wondering, if it is possible to restrict this ability i.e. a user can only find out ...
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