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 chown a directory on a mounted samba share?
I have a linux client mounting a samba share with the following fstab entry:
//<serverip>/<nameofshare> /home/user -o nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15s,vers=3.11,user=<sambauser>,...
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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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How to Chown a directory recursively including hidden files or directories
Seems like chown with the recursive flag will not work on hidden directories or files. Is there any simple workaround for that?
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Chown operation not permitted for root
I try to chown the owner of a file to root, but I can't. I'm doing this as root. I get the following message:
chown: changing ownership of `ps': Operation not permitted
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bad ownership or modes for chroot directory component
I created the user MY_USER. Set his home dir to /var/www/RESTRICTED_DIR, which is the path he should be restricted to.
Then I edited sshd_config and set:
Match user MY_USER
ChrootDirectory /var/www/...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I make my public directory writable by nginx and user? [closed]
I have my WordPress site newly hosted on a small Linux box with Nginx. Nginx runs as the user www-data just like apache, so I have the entire public_html directory owned by www-data so that WordPress ...
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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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DocumentRoot is /srv/www/htdocs; how to enable ~/public_html?
I have installed a LAMP stack on my OpenSUSE 11.4 server. Currently, the DocumentRoot is set to /srv/www/htdocs but I want my users to be able to use ~/public_html just as they would in a shared ...
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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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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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Accidently ran "chown www-data:www-data / -R" as root
I just ran this a few seconds ago. I managed to do Ctrl - C as soon as I realized what I started doing.
So far the only directory it's started going through is /bin.
I'm afraid to do anything else. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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:
/mnt/...
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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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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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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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Directory ownership keeps changing
I run my own git server on my debian server. I use gitosis for access control. I noticed that my /opt/vc directory changes ownership from git:git to myUsername:myDefaultGroup every so often. Almost ...
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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 ...