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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addgroup and chown in Ubuntu
I created a new group with this command: sudo addgroup user123
assign few users to user123 group: sudo usermod -aG user123 sam
Created a shared directory named user123 but when I try to changed ...
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How do I restore permissions for Plex?
I changed the groups to plex in permissions but now I can't use this command:
sudo chown [modifiemind]:[modifiedmind] [ /media/modifiedmind/526e202e-aba3-4b63-bab0-90bce04bd5ad]
to get my permissions ...
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root ownership after mounting a drive with ext4 format
I have formatted with ext4 format by GParted:
(1) an USB flash drive and
(2) an external hard drive.
So far so good, but now they have root ownership and non edit permissions.
I can update the ...
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Root account is really not used in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I'm trying to eliminate some mysterious "Evolution" notifications I keep getting. Google tells me to edit the /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop file, but it is ...
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I had to reinstall 20.04 and did it badly.. I gave the wrong 'user id' and now cannot access the files... ouch!! how to fix the file / dir mess? [closed]
I have used Ubuntu Linux for at least 10 years, and had a problem. So I re-installed 20.04 and forgot my 'user id' and gave it a new one. Installation went well, but all those disks not involved have ...
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Unable to change permissions and user:group of SMB mounted directory
I have a trueNAS SMB mount to a Proxmox VM directory. The mount works fine however, in order for services to automatically move files from one part of the same directory to another, I need to remove ...
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Add Read/Write Permission to Partition
How can you change add Read/Write access to a partition? It was made on Windows, in a exFAT format.
When I have it mounted on system startup, I cd into /mnt/myuuid, I got read access, but not write ...
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chown Operation not permitted
I had original made a Stack Overflow post.
I've this command causing errors further down my Jupyter Notebook (detailed in SO post):
! chown -R daemon:daemon elasticsearch-7.9.2
Giving many of these ...
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I have recursively changed the ownership of /usr
Okay my first time asking here because I can't find a similar question and probably wrecked my OS, so I need urgent help.
Today in the morning I've tried to install the Robust Control Toolbox in ...
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Why I cannot change the owner of files in a mounted directory?
I used the following command to mount a remote directory on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=tidy //192.168.1.11/tidy-mine /media/tidy/f_folder/
When I use the command ls -l,...
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how to fix this huge mistake I ran sudo chown -R user / [duplicate]
How can I fix this issue?
the user is not the root one
and unfortunately one of the mounted disks that got affected too was the apps disk of my windows but I am not sure if it got affected as I can ...
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chown operation isn't persistent after reboot on 20.04
Recently I have an issue where I have to use a tty to change permissions of my home directory back to my primary user and this happens at every boot. I have no idea what is causing this to not be ...
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chown gerd / correction
I did a very bad mistake, I wrote this fatal error in Terminal.
And no start of system more. Apparently it passes grub but, perhaps, dont find users.
After I changed all to root (chown root /), after ...
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Using chown to change ownership on additional HDD
OS Linux 20.04. Having installed an additional HDD in position /dev/sdc1 (Label Data 22) I am confronted with root as owner.
Is either of the following syntaxes correct in order to set me up as owner?
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I ran the following commands by mistake in my Ubuntu 21.04 machine and then everything became broken [duplicate]
Good evening, please I ran the following commands by mistake in my Ubuntu 21.04 machine and then everything became broken...
sudo chown john: /*
sudo chown john: /**
sudo chown john: /**/**
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Do I need to use both chown nobody:users and chmod 755
In the command line chown nobody:users /mnt/user/A && chmod 755 /mnt/user/A can I use only chmod 755 /mnt/user/A to give access to anyone or do I need both to make it fully accessible for ...
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Changing ownership of external HDD
I have just added a 4TB external HDD to my systemand formatted it ext4.
Root is the owner by default.
I have tried to change the owner to adriaan using chown:
Sudo chown -R adriaan /dev/sdb
When I use:...
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sudo chown command fails to give ownership to user account
I have tried running
sudo chown dendy /mnt/storage1/
which returns
chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/storage1/': Operation not permitted
I have also tried
sudo chmod 777 /mnt/storage1/
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Have to take ownership of USB port after each reboot
I have a laser engraver. I was having issues getting Ubuntu to talk to it via USB. I finally sorted that out, but now when I reboot, I have to run the command below every time, or I can't talk to the ...
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`chown postgres` of a subdirectory not working for a new disk
To give postgres more space, I mounted a ssd at:
/mnt/fast_data/
What I'd like to accomplish is to give the postgres user ownership to the postgresql directory, so it doesn't say permission denied.
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Ubuntu 18.04 unable to login as user, but can login in tty3
I accidentally messed up the permissions by typing sudo chown -R root:root /usr. It was supposed to usr instead of /usr. anyway, I lost sudo function and showed the error message sudo: /usr/bin/sudo ...
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After chown 777 to the folder, it is still blocked
chmod
chmod -R 777 /media
chmod -R 777 /media/guoyi
chmod -R 777 /media/guoyi/pc
Then it is still blocked and I use
ln -s /media/guoyi/pc/x /home/guoyi/desktop
Then the link is also blocked.
What's ...
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How can I change owner of mounted directory?
I'm using ubuntu server 20.04 on raspberry pi 4 and I want to change the owner of the external drive for changing permission for my server. But I can't change the owner even using sudo su and chown. I ...
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chown: cannot access 'lisa': No such file or directory
root@ubuntu:/home/menna# chown root lisa
chown: cannot access 'lisa': No such file or directory
I enter this command but it didn't run!
note: I try to use sudo but it didn't run
note 2 : lisa is the ...
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Trouble with CHOWN
Used Testdisk to recover deleted files. Selected directory /Downloads.
But Testdisk saved all files to /home/.Trash-1000/expunged
All files have a lock symbol Cant copy these files nor open them. ...
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What are the proper chown and chmod syntax?
I am trying to change ownership of a file/directory and seem to be doing something wrong, is it my syntax or...what?
michael@michael-desktop:/media/michael/Films$ ls -l
total 1536
drwxr-xr-x 2 michael ...
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untar OpenFoam v2012 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS under WSL2
I try to follow the OpenFOAM installation guide on Windows 10.
However I can't get to the final files as I get trouble with the following command:
'''sudo tar -xvzf OpenFOAM-v2012-windows10.tgz -C /...
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How to chown all root directory to root [duplicate]
I accidentally set the whole of / to another user other than root and it messed up sudo etc. I managed to get sudo back but how do I reset everything else? Back to root.
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How to allow group members to create files and sub-folders and allow other group members to access the file
I have created a group and added group members to it. I use Linux server whereas all other group members use Windows 10, 7 and 8.1. I have given access to the group members to create folders and files ...
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Problem with chown and vsftpd too slow
So me and a couple of friends have a ubuntu 20.04 server. We installed vsftpd to connect with filezilla and be able to upload and download files.
After like 1 hour playing with the permissions to ...
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I'm permanently the sole user of my machine, how can I make it so all files/folders/dirs ect. are set to me as the owner?
Ubuntu 20.04. It's often that I get a message saying something like "you're not the owner of this file, unable to change". No one will ever be on my machine and I'd like it to recognize me ...
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How do I uninstall software that was installed with Wine?
I am a newbie in Linux and I have a problem uninstalling applications.
I ran this command in console: sudo chown -R $USER: ~/.wine, and after that I saw many programs, which I have not installed.
Here ...
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return user permissions to root, sudo broken [duplicate]
i've been having troubles importing CA certificates using the terminal, so I pulled an idiot move and did sudo chown user /usr/ in order to copypaste the CA cert into the desired folder, now sudo ...
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Custom script throwing `Permission denied` when I have all permissions and ownership of the files, could the reason be the file location?
I placed the main script in: /usr/local/bin/
Its files (data and scripts to source) in /usr/local/custom-script/
I used chown on all files and custom-script directory to give a normal user the ...
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chown won't let me change owner of drive and keeps saying invalid user when I'm the ONLY user
chown just won't work. I added a second hard drive to Ubuntu, formatted to ext4 with label hpmachine for file storage. Rebooted, and it mounts fine. I changed the permissions with chmod -R 777, but I ...
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chown $www-data results in invalid option -- d
Trying to set up a lamp development environment by following this guide: https://www.linode.com/docs/web-servers/lamp/how-to-install-a-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-18-04/.
Trouble starts at the virtual hosts ...
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The files in a correctly mounted drive are not visible, only a few empty folders are visible
Yesterday I decided to upgrade from 16.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS. I have my home directory on a different partition. The upgrade to 18.04 went smooth, and the upgrade to 20.04 was well underway when the ...
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Stuck on boot splash screen after chown -R user /*
I ran:
chown -R [myuser] /*
by mistake and now Ubuntu won't boot. All I see is the loading screen for Ubuntu. I cannot ssh into the machine. The Apache server is down, but ping works. In root shell (...
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"You are not the owner" after upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 BIOS to 20.04 UEFI
I wanted to convert a Ubuntu 18.04 BIOS to Ubuntu 20.04 UEFI. To do this in (what I thought was) the most efficient approach, I physically removed the secondary storage SSD and used the option to &...
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Giving owner permissions to www-data: is it a security risk?
I have a small website running on a VPS. I'm using Nginx as a web server (a simple LEMP configuration). But now i have a problem: i have a small php script that needs to be able to write a log every ...
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Cannot change file permission and ownership
I'm using Google Cloud with Ubuntu 20.04 and using Guacamole to RDP into the machine. I have created a bunch of users and wanted to change folder permissions and file permissions of the files I'll be ...
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Can't get simple cron job to run
I have a simple sftp server to exchange files with friends. Whenever someone drops file into it, they're the sole owner of that file and I cannot delete it without using sudo, so I want to run a ...
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How to limit the user access to a directory in external drive?
I have a Raspberry pi 4 with Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS installed.
There, i have a Git repository hosting (precarious) for my personal projects, but i'm trying to use it for a team project. The Git ...
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Wrong chown on root /
There are lot of questions regarding the same mistake , What i did was :
chown -R root:www-data myfolder /
by mistake i typed a space between the folder & / . Then i was not able to do sudo ...
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Changing directory and file permissions
I am trying to change the owner and group of a directory that happens to be on a mounted drive. I can run sudo chown and sudo chgrp on the directory however, when I look at the group and owner, ...
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Can't change the owner back to the root (can't use sudo command) in WSL Ubuntu
I faced this issue when I want to use sudo command :
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
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I changed chmod to /usr/share/applications/ how to undo
I have just installed today ubuntu, and at the end of the day to add an application to favorites I have changed access to /usr/share/applications/ by:
chmod 744 /usr/share/applications
As a result ...
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Undoing `chown` command?
I was installing a few softwares which prompted that :
Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
So I did:
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My root directory (/) is owned by my user. Shouldn't it be owned by root?
When I run ls -la /, it shows that . and .. are owned by my user, and are my user group.
I am almost positive that / should be owned by root and that I must have accidentally chowned / but it's been ...
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What does chown 999 mean?
I know what chmod (change mode) and what chown (change owner) do.
I also understand what the numbers mean after chmod do.
I was going through a docker tutorial and I saw chown 999 being used.
What ...
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