Questions tagged [chown]
`chown` is an abbreviation of "change owner". This command is used to change the owner and group owner of a file or directory
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Install Mosquitto on Ubuntu 18.04 / Chown returns invalid user in Dockerfile
I am trying to spin up an ubuntu image with the below Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu/de:18.04
ARG MOSQUITTOVERSION
ENV MOSQUITTOVERSION 1.5.5
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
# Install System ...
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Changed Permissions of /usr/ [duplicate]
I accidentally ran sudo chown -R root:root /usr/ on my ubuntu machine (while playing around with sd-card of my Raspberry Pi. I actually wanted to type sudo chown -R root:root usr/ without slash.)
Now ...
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CHOWN command applied on /usr/lib by mistake [duplicate]
By mistake, I executed below commands
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/lib
So now it seems /usr/lib ownership is changed and sudo command is not working. Getting following error on terminal
sudo: error ...
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Fix setuid and setgid bits in /usr?
I did something stupid:
chown -R root:root /usr
chmod -R g-w /usr
Apparently, the best thing I can do is reinstall the system. However, my system works fine so far - is there anything immediately ...
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How to use chmod to give a single user from my group permission to my directory?
so ubuntu noob here but I'm in a group with different people having different usernames. So I made a directory, and I want to share this with a single user from that group. How do I achieve this? I ...
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Chown and chmod in ubuntu with different applications using common files
I'm having problems with chown and chmod in ubuntu 18.04.
When I use php + nginx:
touch ('/var/www/a.log');
user:own of a.log is nginx:nginx and chmod is rw-r-r--
when i use
shell_exec('ffmpeg -i' ...
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How to set permission “-rw-rw-r--” to file?
I have a file with permission -rwxr-xr-x in Ubuntu. How can I change it to -rw-rw-r--. I played with chmod settings, but was unable to get -rw-rw-r--.
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simplescreenrecorder: Permission denied
I'd like to use a location different to my home directory for recording videos using SimpleScreenRecorder. However, when I "Browse..." File -> Save as: I get the following error message:
Could not ...
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Read-write problem with my HDD
I have problem with my HDD, all partitions are read only. I try this
sudo chown -R user:group /home/marcus/{Storage,Windows}
but it doesn't work.
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Accidentally changed user of root dir [duplicate]
I am a novice. I accidentally ran a command
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /
Now mysql is not working.
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Please ...
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Delete directory
Sometimes I want to bang my head when it concerns understanding file permissions.
I want to delete a dir called Test_Dir.
andy is the owner. andy is in group.
No files in directory have immutable ...
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Gaining root access then changing folder permissions
I need to change the permissions on a folder and its sub folders from 'root' to me 'andrew'. First I need to log in as 'root' to be able to change this - correct? The folder is - /usr.
Chown and ...
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Change file permissions on hfs drive
I was unable to boot macOS on my mac laptop. I took the drive out to try recover my documents un my ubuntu machine. I installed
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
sudo apt-get install hfsplus
So I could ...
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File group has changed without me changing it
I was working with a file today that I don't own. I copied it to a /tmp folder, gave myself sudo permissions and then changed the owner to myself using chown. I then made my changes.
Afterwords I ...
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Stuck for applying permissions with Ubuntu 18.04
This worked on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I just switched to Ubuntu 18.04. This isn't working.
It's all updated.
I plugged in an external drive. I went and looked at the drive through the gui, if ...
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Is there documentation for chown that is easier to understand?
I am relatively knew to Ubuntu and I want to learn about the chown command, so I tried to read the man chown but I find it very difficult to understand. Is there a document for this that is simpler ...
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Unable to login to my account [duplicate]
I'm using kubuntu 18.04 and have two users in it.
Uthej (the one I use normally)
Hduser( i created it for practising haduol)
I did something like this.. login as root -> open terminal -> chown -R ...
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User permission denied to follow Softlink in root's home
I have a directory containing a load of files and would like to access and using it as user, via a Softlink in the /opt directory, but keeping it in the /root directory:
root@computer:~# ll ...
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Inherit Permission on New Uplaoded File via FTP
I am aware that this question is already asked multiple times before on many forums, I have tried to follow the instruction but still not getting it.
I have one Group Called : SYNC and it has two ...
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Can't change the owner of a folder
I want to change the owner of a folder. The path to to that folder is /mnt/8A30AA8B30AA7DB7/Books. I want to take the ownership of that folder to change the permissions. The folder currently belongs ...
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Cannot modify files installed by `snap`
I have installed a package using snap and I need to modify one of the files but when I try to change its ownership or permissions, I always get the following message:
sudo chmod +x ./my_file.js
chmod:...
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Why does my .desktop-file in home/USER/.local/share/applications needs to be owned by root?
I downloaded IDEA IntelliJ Community Edition, extraced it, copied the extracted files to /opt/i and run sudo ./idea.sh for installation. It created a launcher calld jetbrains-idea-ce.desktopin /home/...
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change permission of directory and all its sub-directories/files recursively
I have search around but can't find the correct answer.
How do I change the permission of a directory and all its sub-directories/files then also when a user creates a file or directory this must ...
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Linux Web Service Permissions
I am implementing my simple webservice in linux using Apache, CGI(C++) and Flat File(Data).
I kept my WWW location path in /usr/share/www/
CGI location path in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
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Permission denied during deletion of folder in UBUNTU
I am the owner of the destined folder and also in group.
I used chown to take all permissions and enabled creat and delete file option. But even then when i tried to delete it; permission denied pops ...
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Empty subfolders in home directory
Today when I started my system , All subfolders of my "home folder" were locked. So after reading different posts i ran chown command. As a result all locks were removed but these subfolders are now ...
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Can't Move File After Changing Permissions
I have a folder located in /var/www that I am trying to move to my user's home directory.
I initially ran mv folder/ ~, and received a permissions denied error. I thought I had set the permissions up ...
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How to specify home directory with 'adduser' when user creation fails on a machine with NFS home directory and Kerberos authentication
I am using adduser --disabled-password to create a user that uses Kerberos authentication for letting them sign into their account. Therefore, the password is predefined by a central Kerberos database....
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Copy file using sudo access
How I can copy file or folder for other user.
New file or folder must have his name.
I have sudo access for cp command
USER1 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/cp
I am trying following command:
USER1@...
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Assign file ownership to a certain user does not work
I am trying to assign ownership of a certain file (FILE) to a user (A). I log in as root and run chown A FILE but nothing happens. If I add the group option (chown A:A FILE), the group is changed but ...
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Change the owner of a subdirectory on a mounted drive
I have my home folder linked to a folder on a mounted partition
in have mounted it via fstab and the uid is the id of root the gid too.
How do i change the owner of the subdirectorys on the mounted ...
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Accidental sudo chown. How do I recover? [duplicate]
I accidentally ran sudo chown -R -v myuser:myuser /, essentially transferring sudo to my own user by mistake. I meant to only take the current directory.
How do I recover from this? I stopped it ...
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Made users members of the group that owns the directory, but they still cannot access it
I wanted to make a share folder for my parents.
I created a system user with adduser, created a home folder which I wanted to use as a share folder. The name of this folder is share, the name of the ...
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users in group can not create files
This seems simple but I can not figure it out. I have two user rob and erik both belong to a group called ivdev. ivdev is the group owner of /var/web/www. Neither user can create new files. If I give ...
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I can not delete files on a NAS I acquired
I bought a Philips NAS on which I found quite a number of old files. I could delete most of them, but not all.
When I look at the permissions of one of the files I see this:
-r-x------ 1 ubuntu ...
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chown not working
I am trying to take ownership of a directory recursively.
sudo chown -R themes/
But I am getting the error:
user@linux-main:/usr/share$ sudo chown -R themes/
chown: missing operand after ‘themes/’
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Allow users to change file ownership of a specific file without sudo
Let's say that we have this situation:
-rwxrwx-r- 1 user1 mygroup 0 Sep 12 16:53 testfile
A group of developers are working on the same VM (Linux). I need to simulate the concept of checkout/...
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chown subfolders with current folder's owner and group
In a bash script I want to recursively chown all subfolders of an arbitrary folder with the user and group owners of that given folder.
My approach is something like using stat -c "%U %G" .
But that ...
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Defaulting new child files and folders to the parent folder ownership
I have created a directory and used chown to make my user and group the owner. If I create a new folder inside the parent folder then the permissions for 'others' under the permissions tab is set to '...
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Having issue with chown
I am trying to run a game on Wine, and for some reason after I run it one time, the files are locked after the first run and I can only open it using a Root account.
I want to change ownership so that ...
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www-data related: What's the difference between these usages of CHOWN?
My user name is jknoppf. I use Apache and want to give myself full access to /var/www/html and start with
$ sudo adduser jknoppf www-data
Then I have
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/...
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upload permissions
I am setting up VPS and facing problem with upload permissions.
First I had problem to upload anything into var/www/test via sftp loged in as user1.
I managed it by running
usermod -a -G www-data ...
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Permission denied error midway even after recursive chown
I have chowned the directory like this:
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /home/ubuntu/xyz
And then I ran a script which puts files to a directory gives me a permission denied error after some files are ...
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Default ownership and permissions for /usr/bin/apt-get
It is a home computer with only one user.
These commands have been used:
chown root:root /usr/bin/apt-get
chmod 4775 /usr/bin/apt-get
How to reverse the commands and restore defaults?
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function of chown command [duplicate]
I'm curious to know what the chown command does. In the manual page it says the chown command changes the file owner and group. I know the owner is the one that created the file(unless changed), but ...
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How do I change group ownership on folders created by a specific user?
I have user who has created a folder and so the permissions are user:user. I have now added user to group so my question is how can I update all folders created by user, as if I'd done chown user:...
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GPG: unsafe ownership on configuration file despite having proper ownership permissions
I'm using Ubuntu 14.0.4. I want to run a gpg command but am getting an "unsafe ownership on configuration file" error, despite following teh instructions here -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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SAMBA chown: invalid user:
I am trying to add users to a LDAP server using SAMBA.
This is my list of users and user 'tester' was created using smbldap-useradd
admin@server:/export/home$ sudo smbldap-userlist
uid |username
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What is the main difference between chmod and chown?
In some examples, I saw that some used chown instead of chmod. I do not know where to use chmod and chown. Please explain to me the difference between them, when and why I should use either.
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chown username:username .Xauthority
I'm stuck in a login loop Ubuntu 17.04.
When I go to tty1 and type chown username:roey .Xauthority taken from Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
It says that my user doesn't exist.
What is the ...
