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User is part of a group - except he's not?
I'm really confused about this. I need to give a user read/write access to /var/www and followed the instructions in that question : Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to ...
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Mount bind with full ownership and permissions
I am using 12.10 on virtualbox. I have my windows documents folder shared through virtual box folder share. Then I wanted to use mount --bind to mount my documents folder to the ubuntu user documents ...
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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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fstab. allow 2 users mount NTFS with passwd. Deny other users. possible?
i've seen this answer, but it requires the partition to always be mounted (and do the user access via group perms on the root FS that mounted the NTFS)
What i'm hopping to be possible, is to allow ...
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How to give a new user permissions to call sudo without a prompt for sudo password?
I am setting up a server in Amazon EC2. I created an image from Amazon's provided images of Ubuntu x64 12 LTS. My goal is to set up a secure svn server there, where access is only possible by IP ...
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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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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 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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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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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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Permissions, don't even know how to resolve without reinstalling Ubuntu
Alright so what I've done, I installed Ubuntu, moved some files while in windows, this caused ubuntu to stop working. I reinstalled it the other day and now that I've set it all up how I wanted it ...
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Samba Server Make Multiple User Permissions Profiles
I have a Samba file server running, and I was wondering how I could make multiple user accounts that have different permissions. For example, at the moment I have a user, smbusr, but when I ssh to the ...
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How to prevent access to a folder by other users?
I want to disallow reading of files in my home directory by other users. How should I accomplish this? Should I use encryption? If so, how do I do that?
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Android SDK file permission [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
General Rules for dealing with File Permissions
I have been trying to access the file for a while now and it says that I don't have the permission to enter the file. ...
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188 views
Permanently set file and folder permission for a user
I just got hold of a Linux machine running Ubuntu from my friend. It places 644 permission on all new files created by a user.
But for some purposes I want 755 permission on all files and folder ...
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I'm in a group but can't create or modify files [closed]
I have two user accounts. Let's say one is User1 and the other is User2.
Both of these accounts are in the "root" group.
I made a folder with some files in it. The owner is User1 and the group is ...
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Failed to load session ”ubuntu“
I have “Failed to load session ”ubuntu“" when rebooting after giving other users no permission to use almost any programs in /usr/share/applications
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Windows Workgroup issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Share Ext4 Partition Over Network
How to configure my Ubuntu Workstation to be a member of Windows 7 Workgroup ? and How to manage permissions for windows users ...
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How can I disable access to the File system for a specific user or group?
It is very important for what I am doing now.
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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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How to provide user permission to read, write on `/dev/sdax`? What is the syntax?
I have two my hard disk divided into two partition (apart from swap).
First one is /dev/sda3 on which I have my ubuntu installation. Second one is /dev/sda1. Now, when I try to copy a file to ...
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Can I restrict file access to other users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I restrict users?
I'm sharing my computer with my roommate, and she needs access to my libre office, but I don't want her to see my financial/tax information. ...
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How to restrict an user to a specific desktop environment
I'm running a more or less standard installation of Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and I am quite satisfied with doing everydays task with Unity desktop environment.
When it comes to playing, however, I feel ...
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Why can root still edit files with a permission of 0?
I just wanted to delete most files from an external HD except some certain ones. So I chmod these ones to 0 and did a sudo rm -r ./*. Painfully, the result was that everything got deleted.
Why is ...
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usergroup permission issues
I tried deleting files on my dekstop (highlight files, press delete) in /usr/share/nginx/www but I'm getting permission denied issues.
What I did was, add www-data and barsoom(current user) to a ...
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Do I need user 1000, and can I replace it?
On my computer running Mythbuntu, I'm having a problem where some important processes are being run by a user called 1000.
$ ps -aux | grep myth
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See ...
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Configuring permissions with Bastille
I was using Bastille to improve the security of my OS. To set this software properly, it ask you several questions related to security rules and you respond it (Y-N). I'm stuck at this question that I ...
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Incompatible group permissions in Linux - Is it a bug?
I am on Ubuntu 11.04. I am creating another user and placing an existing user in the group of other user, hoping to write in the home directory of other user.
# uname -a
Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic ...
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1answer
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I deleted my original user account. The new account has no password. How can I enable it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
How can enable my admin account? i deleted the other one and now the new one is without password and i cant access it and cant ...
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1answer
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sshfs is mounting filesystems as another user
So I am trying to mount a folder from another computer in my LAN, and I am able to ssh without any issues. But, I am unable to make any changes when I access the mounted folder.
This is what I have ...
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1answer
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Change user's primary group - have new files made in that group
I am setting up an environment where I am giving several users SSH access on my server. They are all trusted, but I want to corral them into a segment of the filesystem. I created the users like so:
...
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1answer
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'dd' access to a drive
I've been working with making custom bootloader and kernel code (not necessarily Linux kernel). I'm putting the images on USB, and was using dd to place them on the sector they needed to be on, and ...
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How to make sure other users can't see my files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why can other users see the files in my home folder?
I don't want the others users of my computer to be able to open my home folder. I'm the administrator, how can I do ...
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Unable to Login (Ubuntu 11.10)
I'm having a weird issue. When I put my password using my account (ramiz) on the login screen of GUI, a blink of screen and it take me back to the login screen. I tried with Guest user and it is ...
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1answer
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Can issetuid() be cleared for a child process? [closed]
I have a wrapper script A which is calling program B. A must be invoked as root so some initial setup can happen. After that, A calls setuid() and setgid() to reduce its own privileges, for safety and ...
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2answers
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Users Restriction ( Limit On Executing Files )
I want to create a user in such a way that he/she cannot execute any file
i don't want users to have " x " permissions of any file they create
i m using Ubuntu 11.10
UPDATE
i tryed chmod 700 ...
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Setting A System For Public Use
I am setting a system up for public use
I want to set some rules on the usage of computer so that the users are restricted to some particular areas of the system and they don't play with sensitive ...
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1answer
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Unable to do administrative tasks/install packages
I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 using Wubi, but it doesn't seem that I have proper priveleges or something to install software or do other administrative tasks.
If anyone has any suggestions, tips, ...
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Find out what account an application runs as
Im in the middle of trying to set up a tomcat environment on my development machine. Im having trouble running applications, and it looks like its down to file permissions. The directory containing ...
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How to become administrator again [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
Well I was messing around with the user accounts and I noticed that my account was listed under "administrator".
I knew that ...
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2answers
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Adding user to a group - Why had to reboot?
I was not able to access the VirtualBox shared folder, so I made the user part of the vboxsf group. But, still not able to access it. Rebooting the guest resolved the problem. Is it a bug? A reboot is ...
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2answers
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Giving a single user write permissions
I want to grant a single user write permissions to a directory owned by root over command line. With chmod, it seems that I can only change the permissions for owner, group and other, not for a ...
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1answer
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How to downgrade user permissions on a java app after opening port 80/443
I'm a Java developer writing a web app (Jetty server).
Are there any guides out there are how I might downgrade user permissions using Java?
Most native Linux apps will start as root, open ...
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2answers
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How to prevent users from accessing root directory
While still allowing my account to access the root directory. I've tried adding myself to the root group with $ sudo adduser myaccount root but when I do $ sudo chmod o-r /etc followed by $ cd /etc $ ...
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1answer
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User Independant Share Folder
At the moment, I have a folder in my home directory that is shared on my laptop and can also be accessed by the other windows desktop pcs in my network but now I have decided to make my home folder ...
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4answers
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Why can other users see the files in my home folder?
I just added a new, underprivileged "desktop user," and I was surprised to discover that it can see the files in my home folder.
What is the rational for setting up such lax permissions?
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How do I edit a file / launch an app without having to worry about “permission denied” messages?
When I need to edit a file (e.g. the httpd.conf file or the php.ini file) I start a terminal and open it with:
sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Most of the times, in order to be able to edit the ...
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4answers
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Change owner of internal hard drive partition from root to user
I have a number of drives internal and external. Some are partitioned. Most mount automatically at boot (all did at one point).
One partition is owned by root and therefore does not mount ...
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2answers
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How to grant write permissions in Samba?
I'm having trouble with read/write permissions on my Samba server, how do I fix my smb.conf and file permissions to have a more unified access?
smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = ...
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1answer
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Nautilus file share for multiple users is not working. Only owner gets access
I have always had trouble setting up samba shares with ubuntu. In the past I've tried getting it to work by configuring /etc/samba/smb.conf but never achieved what I wanted. Last time I managed to get ...
