Questions tagged [chown]
The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.
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How to permit the chown use to a regular user, but only on its home directory?
I'm trying to allow regular user A to execute chown command to a list of user B,C,D having as object any files located into its home directory.
In other words, I would try to limit the chown "root ...
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Access to file denied when doint cat
So I'm trying to create a user in gerrit using the command : cat /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 29418 webadm@localhost gerrit create-account --group "'Non-Interactive Users'" --ssh-key - ...
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rabbitmq kubernetes with NFS mount
I tried to set up a rabbitmq cluster in a kubernetes envirnoment that has NFS PVs with the help of this tutorial. Unfortunately it seems like the rabbitmq wants to change the owner of /usr/lib/...
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How to setup a NFS Server on Mac Catalina, that support chown on Client?
I have set the following configure in /etc/exports on Mac.
/Volumes/MacHD 192.168.1.100 (rw,alldirs,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,crossmnt)
/Volumes/MacHD is a Volume I ...
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Proper rights and owner for web executable file saving/reading sensitive information
I have app wrote in php that saves and reads sensitive information into file /sensitive/sensitive.txt. File that is saving and reading sensitive information is user.php. The whole app is in a separate ...
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Changing User - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I installed mariadb, nginx, php7.2-fpm, ufw, fail2ban, zip and unzip as a root in the past. My site is WordPress.
Now I have added an user with root privilages into my server. I won't use root user ...
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how to add a dot recursive in file/folders permissions
example of files with there permissions
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 659 Jan 4 2018 zookeeper-server-initialize
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 649 Jan 4 2018 zookeeper-server-cleanup
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root ...
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get write, read, execute permission of a folder to a user
In an ubuntu server 18.04, I have 2 users: userA and userB. There is a folder
/home/userA/data
I am going to get read, write, execute access of data to userB.
unfortunately the command
chown userB ...
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Even root cannot change the ownership of a file in external drive?
Got the below error from qemu:
Unable to complete install: 'Cannot access storage file '/run/media/msingh/WDELEMENTS1/test/CentOsRestoreTest.qcow2' (as uid:107, gid:107): Permission denied'
So tried ...
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Linux create file system with nonexisting owner/group for foreign (embedded) system
I want to create a file system image for a foreign Linux system on a local Linux.
First of all, the foreign system could have different CPU architecture, such as ARM, MIPS, rather than my local PC ...
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CentOS 7 - systemctl - chown - unexpected remote arg
I have a custom made service file and I'm unable to run it. Here is the ExecStart line:
ExecStart=/bin/rsync --ignore-existing -rtvu /var/foo/foo/ /var/foo2/foo2 && /bin/chown nginx:nginx -R /...
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Can't see files when browsing nginx webserver. Incorrect permissions?
I am using centos 7 with nginx 1.12 to host a yum repository locally.
When I try to browser the files via the browser, I can see the folders, but no files inside them. Im wondering if i might not have ...
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How can I chown a file to a subuid without sudo
Basically, What is going on here and what am I not understanding?
I have a set of subuids for my user. I want to chown a file to specific subuid which is part of this user's allocation
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SSH refusing connection after chown command
I have SSH access to a Centos 7 virtual machine. I wanted to change the permissions on the apache folder (var/www) on my user in order to edit the files remotely, but I erroneously performed chown -R &...
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Permissions, ownership, and grouping changed for no good reason in webapps
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 Nginx server environment with several (WordPress) webapps under /var/www/html.
My Nginx user is www-data.
Each time I add A webapp, I execute:
chown www-data:www-data /var/...
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Non-root user needing chown capability on NFS client
I am providing an NFS server as part of a collaborative project with another group producing client software over which I have no control. Their software provides file management to its users through ...
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Who should own /usr/share/elasticsearch/ in order to Elasticsearch to start
I'm starting with elasticsearch and noticed that in order to startup elasticsearch the directory
/usr/share/elasticsearch/
and all subs need to be own by elasticsearch:elasticsearch.
If it's own by ...
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How to manage FTP and CHMOD / CHOWN when working with a freelancer?
Nowdays, when working with a freelancer, I add a new user to Debian, create a ftp access to this user and give that to the freelancer
Problem is that freelancer can access some data I want to keep ...
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ubuntu, folder perms, drwxrwx---, php user in group, can't create file
i'm stuck & need help understanding file create permission for members of group.
in php, i want to fopen / create a file in a folder that is owned by mysql:mysql
(for importing data into mysql)
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How to make sure that user have recursive permission create folders and files
I have user gitlab-runner which is running CI and basically whenever I push something to gitlab repository it will build the project and then copy it to /var/www/stanislavromanov.com.
The problem is ...
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Php can't write anything [duplicate]
Just moved my websites to my first vps (centos 7). So i'm very new to linux. Now I have a problem: php cant write anything. Can't make dirs, files, edit them. Php runs as "apache" Things I tried:
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AWS Linux EC2 - How to install suPHP or FastCGI php hander
Seems I'm having permissions issue with AWS Linux EC2. Specifically, I am migrating a Joomla site, and extension and core updates from Joomla Admin won't install because of Apache user/group ...
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I changed the owner of sudo. Is it possible to change it back to root?
Title says it all. I was copy-paste troubleshooting and I accidentally changed the owner of sudo from root to my username. No I can't sudo because:
sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed ...
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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 root@127.0.0.1:/jetty/webapps
What would be the syntax to change the ownership of the app.war file ?
In other words ...
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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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sshfs permission denied even for root user
I use sshfs to mount a remote folder from another server to the local server. Mounting the remote folder works without a problem using the following command:
sshfs -o allow_other ...
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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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Give private key ownership to user without /home
so I am looking to set up ssh private/public keys between two servers, for use with sftp (and ultimately lftp using sftp - but one step at a time).
I have created the private and public keys, and ...
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chown or chgrp NFSv4 with idmapd error: Invalid argument
I only found 1 or 2 other posting on this, without any solution, so I am creating a new, more specific question for my case.
System set up:
NFS server running NFSv4.
NFS client running RedHat 6, ...
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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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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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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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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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chown during rsync from windows to unix
rsync: --groupmap=*:www-data: unknown option
I am trying to add an option to my rsync line to set the group of the files transfered to have www-data as their group.
When i add the option i get the ...
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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 -.-
Thanks
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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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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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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 root@107.170.237.162:/var/...
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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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Find, chown and exclude directories
I would like to change the ownership of all files and directories but exclude some directories:
find -user test ! -path "./dir1/*" ! -path "./dir2/*" -exec chown -R root:root {} \;
The ownership of ...
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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 ...
