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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lighttpd 403 Errors on HTML and PHP pages
I installed lighttpd on CentOS 5.5 64-bit. Everything seems fine and running except I cannot get past 403 errors on both HTML and PHP pages. I have used CHMOD and CHOWN, changed ownership in the ...
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Unix Group Permissions
I have created a directory and chown to have permissions master:webmaster and chmod the folder to 775 hence group writeable. So why is it i bert as a member of webmaster cant mv the directory or ...
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chown on a mounted NFS partition gives “Operation not permitted”
I have a remote partition that i have mounted locally using NFS.
'mount' gives
192.168.3.1:/mnt/storage-pools/ on /pools type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.3.1)
On the server i have in exports:
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How to use set-user-ID bit on directories?
I want all files in directory /home/alex/foo to be owned by alex, no matter who creates them. I'm trying this technique, but it doesn't work (on CentOS 5, under root):
$ cd /home/alex
$ mkdir foo
$ ...
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root directory permissions changed to 777 by mistake whats now?
By Mistake on Ubuntu 9.04 my colleague has changed the permissions to 777 on root directory (/)
whats the best way to recover the permissions ?
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How can I reset the permissions of /bin /boot /etc and /dev to orignal owner, Ubuntu?
I accidentally changed the ownership of the /bin, /boot, /etc and /dev recursively to nobody:nogroup using chown when I misplaced a forward slash!
How can I resort the original file ownerships?
I've ...
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Joe's sad PHP permission problem (LAMP) [closed]
As many PHP servers as are out there you would think that there would more guides on this topic.
Joe begins as the happy owner of a new ubuntu PC.
Joe likes Ubuntu in his coffee. Joe wants to build ...
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CentOS 5.4 NFS v4 client file permissions differ from original files & NFS Share file contents
Having a strange problem with NFS share and file permissions on the 1 out of the 2 NFS clients, web1 has file permissions issues but web2 is fine. web1 and web2 are load balanced web servers.
So ...
