Questions tagged [permissions]
Short for "file system permissions" - access control based on user, group, or global access.
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Sudo error, setuid [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I run some command series on Terminal. But at one time I ran
sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/ -R
And giving some permissions on this directory. After that, I'm continue my work, ...
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Subfolder share permission on create over vbox (ubuntu host and ubuntu guest)
first time using ask ubuntu but kind of experienced user over here.
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 guest and Kubuntu 14.04 host using VirtualBox for some important testing, and am trying to use a shared ...
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Changed permissions, now gnome is acting unusual
I'm the kind of guy who likes to make things easy for himself, and I believe I went too far. There was a single directory right under the / directory, but I cannot recall which one at the time, and I ...
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Sudo is also user login password - why? how to change?
When installing Ubuntu I can create a user with an encrypted folder, what I always do.
Now after the installation the login password for this user is also the sudo password. Is that how it should be? ...
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How do I get full permission to my files? [duplicate]
I have run into this problem too many times. Sometimes when I'm trying to run a command on the terminal it will say "Permission Denied." How can I get that permission??
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Virtual Host in XAMPP (help)
İ want to create the Virtual Host in XAMPP. Thus I googled for it. and I did the same changes in my config files like as Virtual Host in XAMPP. But when I went http://localhost2 it say's me:
Access ...
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Samba wont let me write to some shares
I'm pretty new to ubuntu and am having some problems with samba.
I am using XBMCbuntu and I have a few shares which I share with my family and some that I don't. You can see this in my config file.
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FTP/SFTP not allowing any writing
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and vsftpd. In the past my account (not root) has had full access, more or less, to either FTP or SFTP to anything on my server and edit any file that my user account could edit....
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Directory with readable and unreadable files
I am root. I want to make a directory, SuperSensitiveDirectory, private so that only root can even read the files inside it and its sub-directories. There are passwords in these files, and they should ...
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How to give a non sudoer access to a kernel module special device file?
Is it possible to access a kernel module if a user is not sudoer?
I am trying to access a KVM, which is kernel module, as non-sudoer but I am getting an error:
Could not access KVM kernel module: ...
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Allowing a group Read-Write Access to a directory
I have two users, user1 and user2, that are both members of groupA. user2 has a folder in their home directory called folderA. If they wish to allow read-write-execute permissions for all members of ...
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How to create persistent symbolic links and fix permissions to use the raw print?
I have Xubuntu 14.04 and I want create persistent symbolic links for my USB printers. In other hand, I can't write to these devices:
$ ls -l /dev/usb/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 jun 25 14:17 /dev/...
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Problem in permission to execure python code for Hadoop
I have installed hadoop-1.0.3 and executed an sample program wordcount successfully in my 14.04 following this link.
I tried to write program in python by following here.
I have copied the ...
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Samba and Groups
Ok I've been reading about Samba shares etc. for the past few days, I still cannot get it to work.
I've gotten a public share and a private user share to work, but not a group share.
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Give specific user permission to write to a folder using +w notation
I know I can assign the permission to write to an owner/group/others like this:
chmod u+w myfolder
Can I specify the specific user here? Some like this:
chmod username u+w myfolder
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Give permission to a specific group without owning it
I have created a group named newgroup. But I didn't add my user to this group. Now I want give the write permission to this group for a specific file named sample.txt. I can use chmod if I am the ...
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Permission denied while i was installing ubuntu 14.04 by wubi
I have faced a problem when trying to install ubuntu 14.04 version on my windows 7 os by wubi. It say permission denied and refer to the specific folder on drive C (I make a directory of wubi and ISO ...
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I can only execute calibre as root (with sudo). What should I do to be able to execute it without root privileges?
I have installed calibre, but now I can only execute it with
sudo calibre
What should I do to be able to execute it without root privileges, that is, without sudo?
Another problem associated ...
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Opera 24 Developer for Linux will not launch
Today I downloaded the much anticipated, for me at least, Opera 24 for Linux. Very unfortunately I get an error and cannot launch Opera unless I do it as root. The following is returned unless I run ...
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Unable to change permissions for group on USB drives
I have newly installed Ubuntu 14.04 for a media server. My problem is that I have all the media on external USB drives. The drives are write/readable by the user & Files explorer but Plex Media ...
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File Permission In www/html Directory For Security
How can I give permission to directories and files in www/html for security. This files have an .js , .php , .sh extensions.They execute in www/html by apache's user(mine is www-data). When I give ...
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Cant mark minecaft as executeable in xubuntu 14.04
I cant mark minecraft as executeable, I try rightclicking minecraft and starting it up with java 7, but i need to mark it as executeable, If i go to "properties" and go to "Permissions" it does not ...
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Change ownership or permissions of external drive using username and password
There must be an answer to this, but I really could not find it anywhere.
I have an external hard drive with data from an older computer, i.e. I have the old username and password, but these do not ...
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How to copy files to an external HDD from Ubuntu live session?
I have a 320 Gigs HDD with no partition and Ubuntu installed on it, but I can't see the display when it enters lock screen or the desktop. I tried running Ubuntu through a live USB Flash drive and it ...
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Permission Denied When Create New File
I could create file with php fopen(..) when I used the ubuntu 12.04. But now I can't create file with php, because I pass ubuntu 14.04. I can open existing file to read or to write. But I can't ...
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permissions for SugarCRM in /var/www/html/
I downloaded SugarCRM community edition, unzipped and moved it, with sudo, to /var/www/html/ but keep getting errors when navigating to http://dur.bounceme.net/sugar or localhost/sugar (I renamed the ...
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How to copy folders from a different account
I can no longer log into my account even having the correct password. I tried all the suggested advice on the site with no success. I also posted a question and am waiting for a reply. While I fix ...
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Lubuntu desktop not loading on admin user
My lubuntu crashed, and after reboot, when I log in on any of my administrator accounts, it would show the default wallpaper and the mouse pointer. Also, can't open the terminal or any other keyboard ...
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Question about permissions in Ubuntu
I am currently trying to download Linaro Lava onto my VirtualMachine. When I do this command I am getting a permission denied error:
echo 'deb http://people.linaro.org/~neil.williams/ubuntu/ trusty ...
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set file permissions
I have a directory, where users can drop their plugins (for a game). The directory permissions work for adding these plugin files.
But there is one Problem: When the plugin generates config files, ...
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Floppy drive permissions
Why are floppy drive permissions assigned to my 3.5" 1.44 diskette drives in my Ubuntu 12.04.4 and 13.10 operating systems ?
Same floppy drives on these dual boot Ubuntu/Windows machines do not have ...
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Ubuntu asks for permission to add a printer, but nothing works
I am trying to install my HP LaserJet Pro 400 color m451nw, got it all worked out using the hplip open-source program (hplip-3.14.6) until I get to the very end where I verify and setup the device and ...
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permission propagation when dumping text into file
If I do:
sudo mysqldump --default-character-set=utf8 -u root -pwelcome1 mydb > dump.sql
I get:
-bash: dump.sql: Permission non accordée
However if I sudo to su first, it works fine. It seems ...
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copy a file in computer folder
I try to load the dictionary es-ES.dic in the folder usr\share\myspell\dicts (needed for TEXMAKER) but I am not permited because I am not "owner" How can I solve this?
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Why do I need to have superuser permissions to mount share to local mount point?
Well, title says it all, but to be more clear:
To mount a share in a local mount point I need to do something like
sudo mount -t cifs //location/to-share /home/<user>/some/destination -o gid=&...
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give a user access rights to a folder [duplicate]
i've searched on the web for an answer to my issue but what i find just raises more questions.
I have installed plexserver on my ubuntu 14.04.
Plex can't see files or folders from my media library.
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/etc/group - group on last line not usable? Is it a bug?
$ cat -net /etc/group | tail -n 3
67 vboxusers:x:127:hannu$
68 nvidia-persistenced:x:128:$
69 $
$
a)
With the lines as shown I get the profiling (System Settings > Color > Calibrate) ...
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Plug-in Installation Problem [duplicate]
when i am trying to install required plug-ins to play music,the following notice is coming:
Failed to fetch http:/bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libd/libdvdread/libdvdread4_4.2.0+20121016-...
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Error 255 when sharing folder on Ubuntu 12.04
I try to share folder on Ubuntu, the steps I did:
Right click on folder
I clicked sharing options
Then I clicked share this folder
Then I clicked create share
I got this message :'net usershare' ...
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sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers.d/README: No such file or directory
Whenever i use sudo command i get this message:
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers.d/README: No such file or directory
i ran into this trouble when i was strugling with chmod using which i changed ...
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Samba user does not have folder read permission
I have set up a special user for read only samba shares. I set him up in Samba and as a system user. I shared a couple of folders but that user cannot access them. I know samba is working because I ...
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Unable to make changes in Drive
I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I created 2 partitions. First has 50 GB and the other has 250 GB. Everything works in the system drive (create folder, cut/copy) but I am unable to make any ...
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Folder Permissions for new partition - can't move files [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. I used the install CD to repartition my HD by resizing /dev/sda1 and creating /dev/sda3 as a Primary Partition. I named it "Media". When I reboot from HD, when I try to move ...
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Wrong permissions found on some files in home directory when doing backup
I ran my first backup with Ubuntu 14.04 and it ended OK but reported a bunch of files that failed: these are all the ones in
/home/me/.launchpadlib/api.launchpad.net/cache
which must be more recent ...
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How to automatically mount a folder and change ownership from root in virtualbox
It is my first time using virtualbox and ubuntu (14.04), I am on a host Windows 7 OS.
I am trying to mount a shared folder that has files I need to access both in the virtualbox and on the windows OS....
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Prevent a user using sudo [duplicate]
Can we restrict a user and do not let him to go to the root mode. For example, when he inter sudo su, The system tells him you can not access the root?
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How to get permissions to a folder in an installation process?
I am trying to install Matlab in my personal computer running Ubuntu 14.04.
The directory for installation is /usr/local/MATLAB/R2014a, on which I can get permissions using sudo when in the terminal....
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Hewei Data Card Installation in Ubuntu 14.04
I bought a new data card From Amazon. Hewei-support 21mbps.
It works great in windows 7 with the driver given.
But when i try installing it in Ubuntu, i get the following error..
Kindly Help
*rakhu@...
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Files are avaliable only when they are executable on Ubuntu 14.04
Videofiles that I copied from windows ntfs partition are only avaliable when they have at least user execution privileges. When I set permissions to 644, I got Permissions denied. I even can't to view ...
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FFMpeg permission denied error
I installed ffmpeg into /root/bin
I followed this guide: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
I now want a non admin to access it. I created a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin
now if ...
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