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Speeding up permission changes on git post-update hook
A month ago, based my question Git prime/hub website deployment: documentroot changes save fine but permission denied for subdirectories, I received some great help from dawud for setting up a ...
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Using rsync to copy files from one server to another, pertaining users and permissions
I'm backing up user uploaded files from my primary server to my failover server using rsync.
If I use rsync -a to mirror an /uploads directory from server A to server B, can I expect programs using ...
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Windows Server 2008 Mass Ownership Reassignment
A directory with a multitude of subdirectories at a client's office need to have ownership changed to a single Administrator account. Instead of changing the security settings for each and every ...
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Cannot remove a file after its transfer was interrupted (on Windows Web Server 2008 R2 SP1)
I was copying files from linux to windows (via COPSSH) using a command like (from linux shell):
scp -pr dir administrator@win:/cygdrive/c/dest/
(dir was a directory with files and subdirectories)
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Bulk change of ownership
I recently migrated a server to another machine in our rack. They ownership/permissions didn't transfer when I moved /home from machine1 to /home on machine2 (both Ubuntu machines)
The user accounts ...
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FTP and Apache don't get along with ownership
I moved from managed VPS to unmanaged VPS few weeks ago and set it up as I could find guides on net. I've installed Kloxo as my webui for server management etc.
I have a problem with ownership ...
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How do I make it so that files created in a directory have a certain group ownership?
In a modern Linux distro, I want the files created under /path/to/files to have a default group of mygroup. It seems on some distributions this can be done by grpid, which doesn't exists on Ubuntu. ...
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I'd like all files created in a specific directory to be owned by a certain user in linux, is that possible?
First I've been asked to change the owner of the current files in the folder and i chown'ed -R the path but i want to be sure that files which will be created there in the future will also be owned by ...
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Taking ownership of folder does not give full access
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Even after taking ownership of a newly created directory called "NewWebsite" inside the existing "c:\inetpub\" on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) I do not have full access. The most obvious ...
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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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logged in as root, make all files in /home/user chown to user when git pull
I like to stay logged into my (Ubuntu) VPS as root. Now I am running into issues when I git pull into my wordpress directory at /home/user .
All new files will have user and group assigned as "root", ...
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similar files has the same permission & owner but some of them give forbidden error
I moved a file from another server to my server. in directory listing Apache doesn't show it and I cant download it from browser (forbidden) but I created a new file and chmod + chown both of them to ...
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Access Denied to Administrator on Domain Controler 2003
On one of my Domain Controlers, I have a folder that was created by a service. When I try to access it using Administrator credentials I get access denied. Administrator has ownership of the parent ...
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Change owner recursively with Powershell?
I'm trying to use Powershell to change owner of a folder, recursively.
I'm basically using this code:
$acct1 = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount('DOMAIN\Enterprise Admins')
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rsync encounters chgrp errors despite --no-g
I am using rsync to sync a directory to a USB-mounted device. That device automounts with myuser:root ownership. When I rsync my directory (that has myuser:myuser ownership) with -a, I get many of the ...
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Granting access to user's file store without their knowledge or consent [closed]
As a system administrator, if you were asked to facilitate access to your users' file store so that a director could look at what types of files are being stored, what would your response be?
The ...
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Windows Server 2008 Administrator can't take Ownership of file
I'm trying to edit the hosts file on Windows Server 2008.
I right clicked on Notepad and Ran as Administrator, then opened the hosts file, but when I try to save it I get the following error message:
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Change the permissions and take ownership of shared files
I have domain controller (windows server 2008) with shared folders. I am logged in as administrator.
I try to take ownership of a shared folder using the command takeown /f <File name> /a /r. ...
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How do I reset ownership of /usr/bin/sudo on Linux?
I accidentally changed ownership of /usr/bin/sudo to my current user (i also did this for some other stuff in my /usr directory). I can't change any of them back because I need ownership of ...
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Determine creator of mail item in Exchange 2003 public folder
We have several users using a shared account and when messages in that account's in box have been processed they are drag and dropped into a public folder. Is there a way to determine who dropped a ...
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Need a report on data center costs [closed]
I'm looking for some information on the costs of running a data center, preferably a company report not just on inital costs but also monthly and/or annual operational costs. Is there any such report ...
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How to show numerical UIDs/GIDs stored in tar file
I've got some troubles with a tar file that holds a backup. It was provided by our hosting provider and contains some strange file permissions.
When viewing with
tar tvf example.tar
I only get the ...
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Change only a specific owner when extracting tar archive
I have a tar archive containing two owners, 1000 and 0 :
$ tar tfvz archive.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 1000/1000 main/
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 main/root_dir/
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 ...
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How can I remove a directory that I own when it contains subdirectories owned by another user?
I have created a directory /home/web/test on a Debian server using a basic unprivileged account web. Another account — tomcat — then created some subdirectories and files in that folder (as you might ...
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What user should own /var/www/html in Centos?
I've installed CentOS 5.5 with apache, php and mysql.
Right now the /var/www/html directory is owned by the root while apache is being run by apache user from apache group.
Is that recommended? ...
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Failure to copy files with ownership/ACL information on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine
I'm attempting to copy a directory tree, maintaining its ownership information using the command:
XCOPY S:\ProjectsDefault\Template\admin S:\Projects\00\111\admin /S /E /I /O
the command gives an ...
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Backup unix files to filesystem which doesn't allow chgrp/chown etc
I unfortunately have no choice but to backup some files from a ext3 parition on a server to a filesystem which does not allow me to set and edit the normal file attributes (NFS, with all_squash set so ...
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Folders ownerships on Windows and IIS7
I've an issue on Godaddy.com Windows (IIS 7) hosting.
I've installed Drupal, and it cannot save some files into specific folders.
I've checked from the control panel, the folder preferences, and ...
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Changing the ownership of files/dirs created/uploaded via ftp automatically and immediately after they are created
I want the user and group ownership of the files/dirs uploaded/created via ftp to be set to some user and group of my choice automatically. So far I think this is not possible (I'm using vsftp on ...
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Force ownership of folder structure without replacing other permissions - Windows Server 2008 R2 - takeown is erasing all other permissions
Logged on as local Administrator. Trying to put Administrator as owner of all files and folders on a drive. The drive contains an existing folder structure with securities/permissions/acls copied from ...
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How to check the creator of a file in Windows?
I want to find out who created a certain file but all I can see under Security tab is Administrators group being pointed out as owner.
This is not very helpful.
How can I see who really created the ...
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How to change the ownership of a process in Debian?
I have a process of mine running as root (say a webserver) and I want it to be run as non-root.
Is there a way to change the ownership of a process from root to an unprivileged user?
I am working on ...
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Synchronize files and preserve permissions/owners
Greetings,
I've been using Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 and while initially it was working very well for synchronizing a local copy of my website with the remote site, it didn't do so well when it came to ...
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Is there a way to dump whole directory ownership and modes, recursively, on Linux
I'm in the middle of Samba update on a number of servers, each with several shared directories. Users are authenticated against Windows domain AD, so I expect change in local UIDs on Linux boxes. I'd ...
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Migrating machine from domain to workgroup, issues with file ownership
I followed the guide at http://msmvps.com/blogs/clustering/archive/2004/10/06/15096.aspx to move my laptop from a domain to a workgroup.
One thing caught my eye, and that is:
- There's still a ton ...
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Secure file ownership/permission sets for different files in /var/www
I'm trying to establish a set of secure ownership/permission standards for /var/www on my server. The ownership is either apache or not-apache, and the permissions are anything from 000-777.
Here's ...
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Avoiding SQL Server 2005 tables with same names, but with different owners
What is the most likely cause of this behavor with SQL Server 2005?
TEST #1:
I run Management Studio Express, connect to my local database with "windows authentication" and see that I have 1 ...
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How to delete folder of owner/group 99 99
I am using wordpress with wp-super-cache plugin. This plugin automatically created a cache folder in my site for storing the cached files.
But unusually it created folder with owner/group 99 99. It ...
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What is the standard ownership/permissions setup for Apache userdirs?
When enabling userdirs (i.e. ~/public_html) in apache, what is the standard way to set up ownership and permissions of my public_html directory? Ideally I would like to give the apache server ...
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unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
today i logged in to find i can't even cd into /var/ directory. I've checked that ownership and it's correct.
/var/www/ is inaccessible from the web browser. it says 403 forbidden.
error log shows
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Multiple directories update with changing user permissons
I have multiple users on one machine with FreeBSD7.3. Each user has his own site (only one). Each site is a copy of master-site with slight differences (ie. database configuration, template files).
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NTFS Folder has no owner, no permissions, can't be deleted
I have a folder a 2003 member server which can't be deleted. Nothing has any permissions (domain admin and running up a cmd prompt as "nt authority\system" using psexec) - always "access denied".
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Why give owner anything other than 7 for file permissions?
In Unix-like OS's, what's the point of giving the owner of a file anything less than 7 (rwx) for file permissions? The owner can trivially change the owner permissions for his/her files, and so can a ...
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File ownership and permissions on web site PHP files
I am learning the basics of linux servers so I am green.
I have an Ubuntu server upon which there are websites that I have inherited.
In a fit of security worry I decided to check out the ownership ...
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Restore default ownership in CentOS after terrible chown [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover a RHEL 4.3 server from bad permissions set over the entire filesystem?
Is there any way to restore the default ownership of a CentOS filesystem after an ...
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Bash Script To Repair Directory and File Ownership
My client had me deploy some folders out to a bunch of home directories for his customer websites. I did this with a Bash script, but it ended up using the root account permissions.
How do I make a ...
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how to have files created by CMS have the same ownership as SSH user
I am having difficulty on our ubuntu server whereby I have an SSH user that when I create files using this user the ownership is web_user:www-data
The problem is when a file is uploaded or created ...
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How to prevent ssh git push to set file ownership?
I have a remote bare Git repository on an Ubuntu server, where the files are owned by the user my_project and the group my_project, with permissions set accordingly. All commiters are themself in the ...
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Fixing file permissions and user ownership on Unix server
I have just correct my file permissions using: http://serverfault.com/questions/35076/need-to-fix-file-permissions-in-a-users-home-directory
Looking for the same commands and explanation to correct ...
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google apps - privacy, ownership and location of data
This is not directly technical question. but I think this is an important question for every admin implementing Google Apps instead of their own mail server.
I'm pretty excited by the possibilities ...
