Questions tagged [chown]
The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.
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What does 799 mean in chown command for Docker volume access?
I found these lines in installation guide of Thingsboard IoT platform as Docker container. Without this trick Postgres (embedded in Docker image) cannot store its data to the directory on the host ...
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Webserver and permissions - two users having rights to modify specific (but not all) files
So,the typical situation is like that: webserver (in this case nginx) works under the www-data user.
And then there is also 'konrad' user, which is just an ordinary user.
And now, the whole website (/...
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Invalid argument received when running chown in a Linux namespace
After running something like this:
unshare -rUm
mkdir opt
mount --bind opt /opt
touch /opt/test
chown 1000:1000 /opt/test
I'm receiving this:
chown: changing ownership of '/opt/test': Invalid ...
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Linux bash way for unprivileged user to take ownership of contents of only one particular directory?
I want a particular user to recursively change owner and group of all the contents of a particular directory, and only that directory. The directory is a kind of "inbox", where a service ...
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vsftpd : permission denied
Running on debian10
My website :
/home/mysite.com drwxr-xr-x 16 www-data www-data
I added a new user with
adduser alex
Content of /etc/vsftpd.conf
nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
listen=YES
listen_ipv6=NO
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Do I need to reinstall the OS after a mass chown command if only these two folders were 'affected'?
I am using Ubuntu.
I ran the following command. But I stopped it after a while because I felt it was taking too long.
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /
This made the sudo command to stop working. So I ...
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The random behaviour of ownership change after mounting in Linux
So I do know that by default when we mount; the user/group ownership is set to uid=0=gid when belongs to the root and I read that in the mount man page.
The weird thing is I am mounting an NFS share ...
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Browser downloads the file instead of opening php files
So, I'm posting an answer, because after the twice clean-reinstall, I have set things a but differently (to my point of view).
Like I said above, I face a dilemma, since none of the config I have is ...
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Restore File Owner from Backup, but not Content
By mistake we did a
chown www-data:www-data / -R
on a production server.
We do have a backup, but as only the permissions are wrong we want to restore only the permissions from the backup, not the ...
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chown won't change ownership
I've created a directory as root, but when I try to change ownership if it, it won't change! I have no idea why. (I've snipped the results of ls -halg for brevity, in case you're wondering why some ...
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Same rights for owner and group owner, but different result
I have the user with the name sftpuser in the group sftpuser. cat /etc/group | grep sftpuser gives:
sftpuser:x:1001:sftpuser
I have the directory html, ls -l on the parent folder gives for the folder ...
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chmod/chown/mkdir: Operation not permitted as root
I get Operation not permitted for root user on one server but not on the other "identical" server.
Running on Amazon Linux 1.
Server 1:
[root@preprod-1 ]# chown root:root /s3mnt/outliers/
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Security-wise file ownership & permission setup for LEMP server to be managed via wp-cli and wordpress dashboard?
I'm on a LEMP VPS with the following setup;
cd /home/$USER/public/myDomain.com # change directory to myDomain.com
chown -R nginx:nginx . # change file ownership
find . -type ...
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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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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 [email protected]:/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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