Questions tagged [permissions]
Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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Why root user is getting 'Permission Denied' error creating any file inside dir owned by root
Why root user is getting 'Permission Denied' error creating any file inside dir owned by root
root@ubuntu:/sa/# touch test
touch: cannot touch 'test': Permission denied
~# df -h /sa
Filesystem ...
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i am the PhD student. new user to for tinker molecular package .kindly help me to run this package using Monte.f program [closed]
i am the PhD student. new user for tinker molecular package . kindly help me to run this package using Monte.f program.
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How do I call an executable as root without the need of using sudo?
I've created an app that also uses TPM for signing/encryption/decryption (with the tss2-fapi library)... But I am a newbie when it comes to Linux (Ubuntu) permissions. Now, when I am running the app I ...
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Root account does not have permission on a file [closed]
I have files which I cannot delete on my hard drive even when I log in as the root account. I have tried to make the owner of the file root using chown, but that does not work either.
I use the mount ...
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sudoers rule is listed but not applied
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM that I want to give password-less sudo to a specific user
I created /etc/sudoers.d/user with the content
user ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
The user is also on the sudo ...
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New to Linux development: any good resources describing the administration of the environment to run my program?
New to Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, and am wanting to run a .NET 6 program that I've created on Windows on the system. Some basic tests have shown the program works - in a way. I can run it via the dotnet ...
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How to fix Foliate 3 unable to open any epub file after recent update?
After the recent update, the Foliate ebook reader cannot open ebooks anymore (in both APT and Snap versions).
This issue seems to occur in Ubuntu 22.04 with snap, as well as in Ubuntu 24.04 (daily ...
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Samba share (active directory) only write permissions as sudo
I setup a samba server (docker container) which serves as active directory domain controller. It's running on ubuntu server (22.04) and I joined a couple of clients (windows 11 and ubuntu 23.04/23.10)....
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Edit /etc/sudoers file to mount cifs without sudo
I have Python scripts on a Linux server that mount cifs. They get executed via crond. I want to execute them via a specific user, but it will only do it with sudo or the root user.
I tried to edit the ...
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Drag and drop to my NAS
I'm running ubuntu Ubuntu 23.10.
I've created a NAS using OpenMediaVault v7 on a raspberry pi, creating a SMB/CIFS share.
I've permanently mounted the SMB share using fstab and it works wonderfully. ...
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what permissions should i give to a plex server
so im setting up a plex server on an old laptop that i have.
the laptop is running 'ubuntu server' os.
i installed qbittorrent-nox and all the downloads going to the folder
/home/qbittorrent-nox/...
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22.04.4 LTS snap firefox chromium permission problems
I'm running 22.04.4 LTS and Ubuntu Pro support enabled.
"Suddenly" my firefox and chromium stops to start.
If I try to launch them from terminal I get back this errors:
(base) pippo@Ganimede:...
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Cannot install/uninstall tweak in sileo? [closed]
I have a problem in my Sileo. Now I cannot install or uninstall any tweak in Sileo.
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Using «sudo chmod -R ugo+xwr /» and now trying a repair / Update: How do I get access to the core system with another computer
I gonna try to be brief : «Recently» I decide to mount a server computer, mostly because we have several computer at home and I was thinking it may be a good idea. So, for that matter, I choose to use ...
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Root authentication window does not appear when starting certain programs
I'm using Ubuntu 23.10, everything has worked as expected for the last few weeks, but I'm having a recent problem that I haven't been able to resolve, basically every application that requires root ...
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How to get permission to execute a jar file? [duplicate]
I successfully converted a .class file to a .jar file while playing around with Java (I'm new to it) and now I'm trying to execute it, however when I double-click on it to launch it, I got this error ...
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Docker not allowing to run stop, kill or pause commands with or without sudo
I'm trying to restart a container from docker but whenever I try to stop it, kill it or pause it always tell me that permission is denied.
However I've tried using the mentioned commands with sudo and ...
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Set the file permission to -rwx------
My goal is to set the permission of a file to -rwx------. The file currently has the permission -rwxr-xr-x. I have set this with chmod +rwx.
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Can't access www-data directory as a root user on my nfs share
I have an nfs share mounted on my server, who acts as storage for my Nextcloud instance. As usual the directory is owned by the www-data user. After a restart of my docker containers, there were ...
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Copying files to a SSD without problems
I am planning to buy a SSD external disk with some terabytes of capacity.
I want to copy some files, repos, code, documents etc that I have in my ubuntu machine
In the past, I vaguely remember that ...
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.sh file execution: permission denied exit code 126
i got an issue when running the Dockfile:
here are the codes:
COPY UpdateServer/FT.Ubuntu*x64*.sh /root/app/
# Where we are going to place the files we need
WORKDIR /root/app
# Execute the setup
RUN ./...
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Change owner / user access
I am new to the Ubuntu/Linux world and I'm loving it! Recently, I learned how to create my first virtual machine in VMware, but I had a really hard time getting the VM tools to work through the ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Batorcera
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a 9500hx SBC, everything is up to date and upgraded so let's get right into the issue.
I am adding a menu entry for Batocera through Ubuntu Grub (NOT using Grub-...
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Can open directory in file explorer but not in terminal
I have some files that I copied over to Ubuntu 22.04 from my old Windows system. I noticed that many of them were highlighted this strange green color, so following advice from Stack Exchange I ...
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USB hard drive loses permissions after 30 seconds
The hard drive has two ext2 partitions. One is encrypted. After connecting the drive to the laptop I can write to that encrypted partition. But after a short minute all write actions are disabled. ...
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Accidentally deleted folder containing system volume information
I am unable to see folders or files. Please see the attached image and give me a solution.
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bash: ./run: Permission denied
The source code of the GOLIATH simulator and installation guide are provided in public.
https://github.com/necst/GOLIATH
However, I found it hard to install it. I got permission denied error as ...
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Trying to copy files from former Ubuntu installation (WSL) on Windows 10 and overwrite more recent installation, using rsync - permission errors
$ sudo rsync -av --chown=root:root --no-perms --rsync-path="sudo rsync" ~/ext4.vhdx "/mnt/c/Users/Patrick Johnston/AppData/Local/Packages/CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu22....
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Troubles installing redmine on linux server Ubuntu 22.04.4
I made this install
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-passenger
After that, I configured the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf
<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
PassengerRoot ...
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Strange access permission behaviour
I have 4 Ubuntu boxes.
In one of them Tower1 I have to use sudo to grep /var/log/syslog
$ grep CRON /var/log/syslog | grep daily
grep: /var/log/syslog: Permission denied
$ sudo grep CRON /var/log/...
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apparmor bind interaction, preventing jnl file updates
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Bind 9.18.18
I have placed by named zones files in /etc/bind/zones, but I have made the machine a secondary for dynamic DNS, it is a primary for static zones, though in actuality ...
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I accidently changed my root user's name and now have lost all root permissions
I was messing around on my minecraft server with usermod and at some point I copied a command from a forum with incorrect terms.
now when I sudo cat /etc/passwd,
the output for my root user is as ...
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I need help deleting my 20GB error log
My storage was being filled for an unknown reason, until I found by error log is 20GB+. When I tried to delete from disk usage analyzer, it gave me an error “Failed to move file to trash|Unable to ...
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Postgresql 12 unable to start on Ubuntu 20.04
I am trying to start postgresql 12 on an ubutu 20.04 server using the following command:
pg_ctlcluster start 12 main
I get the following error from journalctl:
A start job for unit postgresql@12-main....
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Issues with version control for UBUNTU 20.04 and 22.04
I have a computer that had ubuntu 20.04 installed on a Windows OS, the ubuntu 20.04 app was uninstalled, but under the Linux folder in Windows "Documents" under the Linux section there is a ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 snaps: Allow a snap app access to a VM shared folder
I have Ubuntu 20.04 guest system with a shared folder (lets say, /home/me/VMShared) between guest and host. On the guest machine user me is added to vboxsf group which allows full access to this ...
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Set .desktop file as allow launching on Ubuntu 22.04 terminal?
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
GNOME Shell 42.9
I am working on a shell script to cp .desktop files to Desktop.
And I run into issues when I need set all the .dekstop files to be allow launching in the script. I ...
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Application Updates by users NOT super users
What permission should I assign to a "NOT superuser" user, so that they can update a specific application, for example Chrome? This is very useful since these applications are updated very ...
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su-ing won't work
I want to run something with root privileges without making a user an admin/granting them sudo-ing power (effectively making them an admin). Therefore I wanted to test: su adminuser echo "Hello ...
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I forgot the `-a`; can I restore my permissons? [duplicate]
I forgot the -a in the cp command I executed and didn't notice until I rebooted and realized /home was owned by root.
Is it somehow possible to give myself all the standard permissions back?
I've ...
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DHCPD and Appamor
I running ubuntu 22.04 on raspberry pi, with fixed IPv4 address. On the server a isc-dhcp-server is running. (i know isc-dhcp-server is outdated an not in service anymore).
While starting appamor ...
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Sharing problem for Home Folders
I installed the latest 23.10 Ubuntu yesterday, after a hard drive problem. Now, I can't share folders from this location (Downloads) since the new Properties, no longer have the three tabs at the top ...
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Why are files missing from directories when viewed from web?
I am really puzzled by the behaviour of Apache 2 in displaying files contained in folders stored on my unix server. Until recently I had assumed that I could navigate through listings displayed on ...
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How to grant a snap permission to read the whole filesystem
I've installed the mdview snap. It gives file not found errors for whatever reason. How to I set up snap permissions so that I can run mdview anywhere on the filesystem and have it load the file I ...
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Give multiple users transparent ownership of directory and contents
I've got a directory that I want to be owned by multiple users on the system. That is, I want any application running as oli to think those files are owned by oli, just as any application run by jim ...
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can anyone help me with this apt update issue in ubuntu 23.10?
image from software update
Ign:1 https://mirror.limda.net/Ubuntu mantic InRelease
Hit:2 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease ...
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Cannot run bash script Cisco Anyconnect. "Sorry, you need user privileges to run this script." When executing as root
For work i need to install Cisco Anyconnect and i can't get it to install due to a rights issue. I have everything set up, i think correctly. I'm following this instruction.
After step 8 (executing ...
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Camera Timestamp Glitching error
Recently my camera on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (64 bit) started to have problems. The camera would repeat frames and ultimately not show any newer frames than the snippet at the beginning.
The program I was ...
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How do i eliminate files saved in Run/user/1000/doc
I run Ubuntu 22.04.
My web browsers saves downloaded files to the run/user/1000/doc folder in hex-named folders created for every single file. As I learned seaching the web, this can be avoided by ...
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Unable to join and authenticate ubuntu server with AD domain
We have followed up with the steps in the below ubuntu site to configure and join ubuntu server with windows AD domain.
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-sssd-ad
Post completion of steps we are ...
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