Questions tagged [chown]
The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.
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Putty: pscp file transfer change permission
I am transferring my file using pscp with the command below:
pscp target\app.war [email protected]:/jetty/webapps
What would be the syntax to change the ownership of the app.war file ?
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HHVM w/ FastCGI vs. Uploading via WordPress
I successfully installed nginx, HHVM (running with FastCGI) etc. on an Ubuntu 15.10 installation, and HHVM is, in itself, running fine. My /var/www directory is owned by my user and group (e.g. sam:...
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chown: Operation not permitted for root on ext4 root-partition
After upgrading from Ubuntu v14.04 to v16.04 chown doesn't seem to work any longer on my server.
I checked following:
filesystem is RW
user exists
folder is not immutable
all commands executed as ...
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Rsync to remote server and change file / directory ownerships
I am using Rsync to deploy to a remote server, which is working. However the file and directory ownership always replaces old files with root:root
I need the ownership of all files and folders ...
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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
cmds_allowed=PASV,SIZE,CWD,PWD,...
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Chown root mistake
I accidentally executed the chown userx:userx / command.
Is there a way to fix this in a gentle way?
I know the mysql folder has to be owned by mysql:mysql. But what about the other folders?
Are ...
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MySQL (local) owner and permissions
I recently successfully installed the 64 bit version of mysql-5.5.8 on a MacBook Pro in the /usr/local directory.
To address a completely unrelated software (RVM actually) , I chown-ed my /usr/local ...
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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 chmod_enable=...
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Prevent changing ownership of a file
I have file with 777 permission. How can I prevent changing ownership of that file by others? ie I need to prevent chown x:y myfile
myfile is actually a log file written from web. it's ownership is ...
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Accidentally ran chown -R / and now mail queue not being delivered [duplicate]
EDIT: BTW, everything else including all websites on the server are running fine except that mail queue in whm is not automatically being delivered. What directory would I need to change ...
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Chown in sudoers file : Safe or not?
Is it safe to add this command in sudoers file?
mike ALL= NOPASSWD:/bin/chown -R www-data\:www-data /var/www
and this is the only command that I want to run
$mike@ubuntu: sudo chown -R www-data:www-...
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Chown results in not being able log in VestaCP [duplicate]
so I needed to chown a folder and I accidently wrote
chown -R admin:admin /
And that chmowned all files for ~5sec then came up an error that it can not chown something and I stopped.
After I ...
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ubuntu 14.04 server wordpress file permission
I have an webserver running Ubuntu 14.04.
I host 3 wordpress 4.1 sites using apache virtual hosts.
The website are working well but I can't upload any picture using wordpress>media>library>add new.
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Rsync from a local laptop to a VPS with correct ownerships
So I have this workflow which works but is clumsy"
RSYNC to ultrapress.co
rsync -azP --delete /Users/rocketadmin/Sites/vagrant-local/www/wordpress-default/wp-content/themes [email protected]:/var/...
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Permissions/groups setup [closed]
I have setup up a Group that includes a few users (mygroup) then have set the owner of a web directory to be apache and the group to be mygroup.
chown -R apache:mygroup /home/myweb
Then I have set ...
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Shared /home with NFS: chown /home/userdir to a user that doesn't exist on the server
Let's say I have a NFS /home on my server that gets mounted on boot by clients (EDIT: on their own machines -- locally), in order to have a common /home for my clients, this way they automatically ...
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Reset ownership [duplicate]
An employee accidental recursively changed permissions from the root directory to apache. I reran it to root, we fixed MySQL, but SSH still doesn't work. What is the correct way to restore the ...
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Issues with file rights in CentOS [closed]
May someone explain me how to manage rights correctly pls? I have a file with these rights:
8 -rw-r--r--+ 1 sntecard sntecard 4669 Sep 18 12:34 index.php
I am accessing this folder by user ...
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Files 404 unless owned by 0:0
When I upload files to my staging server (CentOS 6.5, Apache 2.2.26) - such as images or PDFs - via FTP, or by using a file upload script I created (using Laravel 4), they 404 even though they exist.
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Using dot (.) as delimiter to specify group in chown
I've always done:
chown nimmylebby:admins file
I see that this also works:
chown nimmylebby.admins file
Might seem like a silly question but I'm genuinely curious on how the latter works. It isn't ...
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chowned root directory recursive [duplicate]
accidently I did "chown -R www-data:www-data /" (I wanted to chown current directory).
Is the only good way now to set the system up again from beginning?
waaaah -.-
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Mounted Gluster volume keeps reverting to "root" permissions
Ive got GlusterFS running on an AWS server and its mounted to another AWS server. The folder that is mounted though keeps reverting to "root" ownership, when this happens uploads fail from the web ...
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Reset Permissions and Ownership Script
On a development server (Ubuntu 14.04) we have this shell script running every minute on cron:
for dir in /home/*; do
username=$(basename $dir)
echo "changing ownership to $username in $dir/...
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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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Change permission for home directory on debian [duplicate]
My Debian machine is running DirectAdmin and we have build our own CMS. By now, when we create a new website a new folder and user will created down the /home/ directory.
As an developer to setup ...
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Permission samba shared www folder
I'm having trouble with permissions on a samba shared folder on ubuntu server 14.04.
This is the www one. But actually, it's in /home/administrateur.
As I want to preserve my www folder whatever ...
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Maintain setgid bit (after bower install or gulp build)
We run web servers where we have the following situation:
The www-data user runs the web server and must have read+write access to the files
The deploy user deploys all the code
The bob and alice ...
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Linux permissions in /var/www: What settings can I use for good security practice and still maintain accessibility?
I'm primarily trying to set permissions inside of /var/www . We are using a project format which has the following structure in common for each project:
/var
/www
/runtime
/shared
/project.com
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What could cause *every* command in RHEL to be executed by root?
Recently I was asked to look at a system for a "friend" that left me completely stumped.
Their original problem stated to me:
They have a RHEL 5.10, gnome desktop fairly typical install
They are ...
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Add permissions for a user to folders and files [closed]
I have a user jenkins that creates files and folders in (on ubuntu) :
/var/jenkins/workspace/my-project
e.g:
drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 21 16:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 ...
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Using chown: Any substantial difference between assigning ownership of the entire directory vs just the files in it? [closed]
An example: Say Apache needs to have ownership of all the files in /var/www/html to serve the pages of a website. Is there any danger in making Apache the owner of this directory (and files and sub-...
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chown / owner group permission confusion on lamp stack
I've got a few problems with permission/owner group setup on my VPS.
It's running LAMP (Ubuntu 12.10, apache2, mysql 5.5, PHP 5.5.8).
I've setup vsftpd as a forum platform I'm running needs ftp ...
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force group assignment in chrooted sftp environment
I've got the following setting:
There are several users /home/user1, /home/user2, and so on. Additionally there is a user /home/sftp-all. The folder /home/sftp-all/shared is mounted in every other ...
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How to safely change owner:group recursively?
I'm copying one users home directory to be the home directory of user #2, and therefore need to chown the contents to the new user. Running:
find /home/user2 -user user1 -exec chown user2 '{}' \;
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FTP user not able to see or access anything?
I am trying to make an FTP account for a user, and it is not working. The user wants to be able to ftp to his sites home directory, and change stuff. I created a user(MEvans) and set the home ...
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ls permission denied even with execute permissions
I chowned recusively /srv/site to www-data:www-data and chmodded it recursively with ug+rwx. I then added myself to group www-data.
$ sudo usermod -a -G www-data cyrus
$ sudo chgrp -R www-data /srv/...
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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 [g+...
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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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What are the proper chown settings for images? [duplicate]
I am testing a piece of software that is working except for some SVG images that are not showing. When I preview them using Firebug in Firefox, it says "Failed to load the given URL," however, when I ...
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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 of ...
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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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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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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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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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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 the ...
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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 it ...
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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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