I'm new to Ubuntu and need to create a new folder in /var and need all users on the machine to have full permissions to this folder.
How should I proceed?
4 Answers
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to go to a terminal and type:
sudo mkdir /var/szDirectoryName
sudo chmod a+rwx /var/szDirectoryName
Where szDirectoryName is the name of the directory you would like, a means "all" (users) + means "add the following rights" and rwx means read, write and execute respectively...
Note: there already is such a directory in /var which all users have access to: tmp (full path: /var/tmp) which itself is symlinked to /tmp.
Beware however that all files in /tmp are deleted at boot time.
For any further information, here is a great resource on all directories in Linux.
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but what is that mean after i executed your command i got total 0 when i wrote ls -l /var/nameoffolder?– samCommented Jan 11, 2016 at 23:04
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i know that command ls .. used for listing what is in that folder but -l give me the permissions rigth ?– samCommented Jan 11, 2016 at 23:08
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sorry , you edited your answer with statement i want to ask about there is already a directory in /var that all users have access to: tmp which is symlinked to /tmp this means that folders that i will created in /var will be deleted liken in /tmp– samCommented Jan 11, 2016 at 23:21
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After this i am still getting error
-bash: cd: folder: Permission denied, when trying cd folder Commented May 14, 2022 at 17:56 -
@YourHelper Please ask a new question and provide more details there as to what goes wrong where exactly... It might help to include a link to this question for reference.– FabbyCommented May 14, 2022 at 23:32
Open Terminal
Create Directory with mkdir:
sudo mkdir /var/DirectoryName
To give all permissions to a folder give chmod -R 777:
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/DirectoryName
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1This works for me, since I also need to give all the sub folders the permissions. Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 3:06
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yes. we need to move to the path or we need to type the full path for the folder Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 5:56
Below gives all permissions to everybody to all files and subdirectories:
chmod -R a+rwx path
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Is this true for any new files/directories made or only for existing files and directories? Commented Oct 9, 2022 at 19:39
To give all permissions to all the users, use the following command:
chmod -R a+rwx /path/....
Note: It's Usually not recommended to give every user every permission of a directory, be careful while using this command.
To give permissions to a specific user:
sudo chown -R username:grouname /folder_path
/varthat has full permission for all users??? There is already one! and it's calledtmp!quiet splashfrom the boot parameters...) ;-)