The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.
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I can't set 0777 as file permissions because owner/group is 48 48
I am trying to chmod a folder to 777 but I'm unable to it. It always reverts changes to
File Permissions: 341 (instead of 777)
Owner/Group: 48 48
Other folders run on Owner/Group 502 503 and I can ...
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Setting permissions to manage webserver files with Sftp
my server admin skills are a bit rusty (lots of years of inactivity), so I need your help. I saw and tried lots of tuts, but I can't achieve my goal.
I have setup an Ubuntu Server to host some ...
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Permission denied with chmod 750 even if a user is just added to a group
I have a weird bug, I have:
a user A
a group B
another group C
I create a folder and then chown it A:B and chmod it 750.
After usermod -aG A C, C should have the right to go to the newly created ...
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Why is kjournald extremely active on a mostly quiescent filesystem?
Note: This is a "documenting my process" question that I'll be writing an answer to. Happily, serverfault already helped me solve this, because writing up my situation so others would be able to ...
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Proper user/group acces rules for apache web-site
I have a website which lays in some directory. Website has .htpasswd file for restricted acces and public_html folder where all files are. And I have index.php in public_html folder.
For simplicity:
...
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Local Website PostfixAdmin Access Forbidden - Error 403
I am currently having an issue loading the setup.php file on my webserver to setup PostfixAdmin. I am completely lost as to what the issue is, because I can open index.php in the same directory ...
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vsftpd can't upload to mounted directory
I have read many, many help pages today trying to fix this, and I'm still nowhere closer.
vsftpd config file:
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
...
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Recovering from a system-wide chown?
I have a Linux web server with multiple sites being hosted with CPanel.
I was having trouble accessing a site, so I ran this command:
chown -R root:root /home/evalreal/. While waiting for the command ...
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SSH: FTP created <user> logs into the wrong directory
Ok here's the deal - im new to SSH and have been googling around trying to figure this out.
Objective for me has been to create a FTP user that can login only to: /var/www/mydomain.com/ - however what ...
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CentOs, Folder Permissions
I would like to give an FTP user permission to write in a folder but should not be able to alter other files in the folder or sub folder in the main folder.
I have a root account, we are using the ...
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Using chown to change the group owner of a directory is not permitted…Why?
I am trying to execute chown on a directory that has the following permissions and owners:
drwxrwxr-x 2 justin devs 4096 Jan 1 20:42 test
I am trying to simply execute the following as the justin ...
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Are my web server permissions for uploading correct? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best linux permissions to use for my website?
I'm on debian and I have my website in the directory /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html
I set chown for ...
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How can I make my public directory writable by nginx and user?
I have my WordPress site newly hosted on a small Linux box with Nginx. Nginx runs as the user www-data just like apache, so I have the entire public_html directory owned by www-data so that WordPress ...
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Purpose of -r option in chown [closed]
Newbie here. Can someone please explain what it means to do something "recursively", in plain language? I have looked at search results for HOURS without finding anything that simply says what it ...
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Default owner and group for new files/folders [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to set up default group permission in linux folder
I'm uploading to /var/www via SFTP and wondered how I can get it so when I upload a file or folder it always has ...
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Basic clarification about Limited FTP/sFTP users
I would like to get some clarification about the correct way to create limited users to access to my VPS user as WEBSERVER with Nginix.
I'm used to NOT install FTP and access via SFTP only. It is ok ...
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chown: changing ownership of `.': Invalid argument
I'm trying to install some new files on our new server while our sysadmin is in holidays:
Here is my df
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3 273G ...
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How to revert mass ownership change? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
revert chmod 777 / -R
I accidentally executed the chown someuser * -R while I was at / on my server.
I thought maybe by issuing chown root * -R would somehow fix it. But ...
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Ubuntu - Group users create new files/directory always: -rwxrwxr-x / drwxrwxr-x
I got a directory in which my group is the owner. The group has two users, however, when a user create a directory the other user can't move the files.
Why is that and how can I change so that the ...
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DRBD heartbeat's resource role trouble in centos 5.4 by mysql files owner change?
I am using 2 machines with centos,mysql,drbd,heartbeat,asterisk.
node 1 has
hdc :SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P, ATA DISK drive
kernel version 1 SMP Tue Aug 21 17:50:26 EDT 2012
kernel release ...
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Directory ownership keeps changing
I run my own git server on my debian server. I use gitosis for access control. I noticed that my /opt/vc directory changes ownership from git:git to myUsername:myDefaultGroup every so often. Almost ...
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How to auto chown/chgrp files after FTP upload?
I have a new VPS setup with Debian + LEMP stack. Wondering how to automatically chown/chgrp new files uploaded via FTP to /srv/www/siteroot to www-data:www-data?
I am under the assumption this can ...
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How do I enable a group of users to edit files in Ubuntu var/www?
I'm hoping someone will be able to direct or help me understand how I can enable multiple users to edit the same files/folders in Ubuntu EC2 server (11.10).
I currently use Transmit, the Terminal ...
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Automatically change UID of file
Due to development policies, all my relevant server files have g+w policies. This is working great, but, for added accountability, I'd like the files to change owner UID upon being edited by other ...
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Fastest way to chown a whole device (xfs)
I need to chown 1.5 million files on a drive. I'm currently doing:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /root-of-device
but it takes an awfully long time to run. I was wondering if there was some sort ...
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Recovering from bad chown command
I was going to change the ownership of a directory to apache:apache, but I ended up running:
chown -R apache:apache /
Bad! Very bad! I knew what was going on when it started saying:
chown: ...
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Permissions nightmare - tried all I know
Working on a new client's dev site, which is a wordpress install on a Plesk box. I have SSH root access, and FTP access through a separate account.
What I've done so far
Initially I couldn't make ...
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After Changing Permisions, Plesk,Root,Mysql is Down
i have connected on Root with SSH Access.
Becouse i transfer the files with root, all files was root own. I need it to be on other user, so i was connected on as my current folder:
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Changing file ownership with chown
I'm currently logged in as root, and I want to switch ownership of files to the xyz user. How can I do that using chown?
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How to make a folder accessible to users of a certain group on linux
I tried to make a the /opt/apps folder accessible to all users of the 'www' group. The main user of the group would be the 'jboss' user, so I runned:
sudo chown -R jboss:www /opt/apps
Both the ...
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FTP SITE CHMOD Error
When trying to edit file/folder permissions via FTP I am getting the error:
505 Security server forbids SITE commands. Contact admin.
I am currently using VSFTPD with the config value ...
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Undoing change of ownership to var directory
I accidently ran sudo chown -R user:user *.* (on Ubuntu 11.1) inside /var directory..
Even after running sudo chown -R root:root *.* (and rebooting) I keep getting GUI messages that some operations ...
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DocumentRoot is /srv/www/htdocs; how to enable ~/public_html?
I have installed a LAMP stack on my OpenSUSE 11.4 server. Currently, the DocumentRoot is set to /srv/www/htdocs but I want my users to be able to use ~/public_html just as they would in a shared ...
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How to chown when a user name contains a dash?
A user and group contains a dash: abc-def. When I try to use chown I get an error:
chown abc-def.abc-def * -R
chown: invalid user: `abc-def.abc-def'
the user is valid and it should work... how can ...
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Make files editable for guests without using chmod
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, or if it has been posted before. I couldn't find anything though.
If I log on to a linux server without supplying a username or password (from windows ...
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Determing the Execution Environment of Apache
I am having this error:
[Mon Dec 05 10:22:23 2011] [warn] mod_rewrite: Running external rewrite maps without defining a RewriteLock is DANGEROUS!
[Mon Dec 05 10:22:23 2011] [error] (13)Permission ...
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How to give ownership to root without being root ? (needed for Apache)
I've got a PHP script that creates a folder on my server.
This folder is supposed to be accessed via Apache, and users can view it online.
Now if I create this folder while being root, everything ...
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chown, chmod & bad settings on /home/user/.ssh directory in fresh install of CentOS 6
I just finished installing CentOS 6 last night (netinstall from georgia tech repository), and have been running into some weird SSH issues when I try to SSH from the CentOS box (behind my home ...
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Cross-group file permissions in Linux
I have 2 users: Alice and Bob and 2 groups: Management and Personnel. Alice has primary group Management, and secondary groups Personnel and Alice. Bob has primary group Personnel and secondary group ...
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CentOS Directory Owner
I have a dedicated CentOS 5.6 Server for our webhost. I've setup FTP account in PLESK to access our website. Once I migrated joomla over I can not change/modify or upload new files via: FTP. I've ...
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creating user with limited access
I add a user on Application server using "useradd" command.
/usr/sbin/useradd shantanu
This user can connect to mysql service using the following command...
mysql -h 10.10.10.111 -uroot -proot@123
...
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is it safe to chmod 775/664 with owner www-data:www-data?
To make working with my webserver easiest I am proposing doing something like the following:
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www -R
cd /var/www
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
sudo find . ...
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Cent OS running Plesk 10
Like an idiot I was chown some files and did the command chown -R root:root / which as you can imagine has caused me some problems, i stopped it as soon as i could but i can no onger access plesk ...
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Setup Directory Permissions For Multiple Users To Read/Write
I am trying to figure out how to setup the permissions on a directory (/apps) so both the root user, and another user justin can read, and write into the directory.
The user justin is part of the ...
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mysql.sock issue, chown mess and file permissions in LAMPP
I've made a mess on my server. I'm using LAMPP and I've created a new user apache:apache and assigned him to take care of the Apache. phpMyAdmin did not work due to that change so I had to chown the ...
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Limit sudo to only one directory and it's subdirectories by sudoers file
So I would like to limit Apache to only change permissions in a certain folder and all of it's sub-directories, so this is what I have in my sudoers file
apache ALL= (ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod -R ...
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Pre/Post deploy script to change file ownership?
We are running CentOS 5.6 on a dedicated server. I am planning on deploying our Magento store changes using BeanstalkApp (www.beanstalkapp.com) which offers pre and post deploy hooks.
My username for ...
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Change group owner of file, but not the owner
I want to make sure all directories and sub directories are of the group hgdata, but I do not want to change owner's (they are many different owners).
The command chown -R will do the recursive ...
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Cannot login to Solaris due to chown on /usr directory
Someone ran "chown -R username /usr" and now I have no way of logging into the box to change it back. SSH has been disabled, X Server won't start so I have no graphical GUI, and the console login ...
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Cannot login to Solaris due to chown on /usr directory
Someone ran "chown -R username /usr" and now I have no way of logging into the box to change it back. SSH has been disabled, X Server won't start so I have no graphical GUI, and the console login ...
