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Preserve ownership with rsync, without root

I would like to perform incremental backups (for the entire filesystem) from a machine. rsync does this quite will, however I would like to also preserve file ownership - meaning, make it possible to ...
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How do you determine the OWNER of an Oracle Database

When you install an Oracle database in a Unix server, the Unix user id you use for the installation becomes the OWNER of the database. What is the most reliable and general way of determining in a ...
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correct file system permissions for joomla installation on linux

My question is pretty general. Lets assume I have a linux distribution web server, with the /var/www/ is the web directory. I used my superuser account to upload and unzip the Joomla installation ....
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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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Correct web user for PHP-FPM under Nginx

I've always been accustomed to running PHP under Nginx as the www-data user, for everything: php service, cron, CLI, etc. Recently though, after reading up on firstly this article and then this ...
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Use Windows PowerShell to find and delete files from specific owner

Because of a ransomware attack (no big deal, all recovered from backup) I want to clean up the directories and sub directories on the network share where the attack happened to create a lot of ...
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Home directory owner is root instead of user

I am adding users using the command useradd in opensuse 12.1 and creating a home directory on NFS. The problem here is the home directory's owner is root instead of user. msvlsi67:~ # useradd -g ...
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windows 2008 r2 Change owner on multiple folders

I've a quest to change the owner on about 800 folders. The owner should be equal to the folder name. I've tried something like this: set /p userDir=username ICACLS "D:\test\%userDir%" /setowner "...
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reverting file owner on CentOS

By mistake I ran a stupid command with a typo in it. I created a user "teamspeak" and I wanted to change file owner of current directory and it's sub directories, but by mistake I ran it in the "/". ...
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httpd start timestamp

can you tell me, why are last three httpd processes started at different time then others? also, why is process owner different? [root@myserver httpd]# ps aux | grep httpd root 5455 0.0 0.6 ...
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Set owner of new users home folder to user instead of BUILTIN\Administrators when using ADUC (on Windows Server 2008 R2)

In our AD, we create new users by copying a default user in ADUC. For the default user we specified a home folder using the %USERNAME% variable (mapped to H:): \fileserver\homes\%USERNAME% For new ...
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how to I change the owner of a folder on my server?

OK I'll be more specific - I have uploaded a bunch of folders via ftp. These now all have the the owner name of the account which I logged into FTP using. How do I change the owner to be the server ...
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Account permissions needed to change file ownership

I have an application that needs to be able to change the owner of certain files. The application runs under a domain service account (with local admin rights to the application server, but not the ...
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Automounted AFP home directories are owned by root (OS X Yosemite client, Linux Servers)

What I am trying to do but can't get to work I am trying to set up network users in Yosemite clients with their home directories on kerberised AFP. I am using automountd to have the home directories ...
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Owner/Group issue on Mirror server

I am running Gluster-FS with a High-Availability Storage setup. Both client and server nodes have NginX running to serve same files. main.mysite.com mirror1.mysite.com ..etc.. The problem is that ...
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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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Linux & NFS: Atomic compare-and-exchange of file ownership

My IT department made an error and chowned every file on the filesystem to root:OurGroup. Then their automatic backup (i.e. .snapshop) system created a snapshot, so we no longer have a reference of ...
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Linux find command to return files AND owner of files NOT owned by specified user

I have the following terminal command: find /home/not_this/ \! -user not_this_user_account The goal is to find all the files and directories not owned by the specified user and this version of the ...
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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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I can no longer SSH to a VM on GCP after breaking ssh configuration

I am starting to use GCP. I fixed a server (redhat), connected to it (using SSH, directly from GCP console) and deployed my application, everything worked well To try to fix something I played with ...
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Linux permissions for multiple groups

I have a directory (With sub directories and files) that I would like to setup so that: -Users of an 'editors' group can rw- any file and rwx any dirs. -Users of www-data can r-- files and r-x dirs. ...
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Azure Subscription vs. Resource Group Roles & Permissions Clarification

I need to outline the permissions I need to create a few Azure resources for a client. Its unlikely I will be assigned elevated permissions like Owner on the resource group or subscription where my ...
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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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How can PHP be configured so that uploaded files are not saved with the APACHE user?

A php script uploads files to my server but folders MUST be 0777 in order to allow PHP to move files there. This is not safe. Additionally, all created directories and uploaded files are owned by ...
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How to change the owner of a file to that user when a user modifies a file

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 version. I want to satisfy two conditions in an environment with multiple users. Users will all upload files via ftp. Multiple users should be active in one home directory. And ...
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Google Cloud Project with No Owner

We have a Google Cloud project on my team and the owner has since left the organization. We still have access to the project because someone on my team in an editor but editors cannot give others ...
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How to search for all files owned by a particular user in SAN

My question might be confused you but honestly that very straight forward. I have a SAN with many terabytes of data. All users have their own home directory or share directory on that (And most ...
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lxc/lxd iptables ouput owner rule errors out with "Invalid argument."

If I try to run the following command in my lxc/lxd Ubuntu 14.04 amd64 container: iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m owner --uid-owner 0 -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT I get the following error message: ...
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the actual link permissions aren't used for anything - What about Ownership?

After months of intermittent attempts to discover what was causing these Forbidden errors I've discovered evidence that strongly suggests Apache2 uses the actual link's ownership and group. I have a ...
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How to set ownership on a webserver

We have an internal server where we work on with 3 users. It is running ubuntu with apache mysql proftpd We often have permission errors. Sometimes we can't overwrite files but we can delete them etc....
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help me with permissions of next linux files and directories

while checkin my server, decided to find all files/directories that are owned by user bin. i found next: /etc/rc.d/init.d/courier-imap /etc/pam.d/imap /etc/pam.d/pop3 /etc/courier-imap/shared /etc/...
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Change the permission and ownership of a sub directory in centos

I m having the following sub folder structure. /public/trunk/src/common/site/ I want to change the ownership and permission for site and their sub directories alone. How can i achieve that? Thanks
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retrieve the real domain owner [closed]

is there anyway to retrieve the real domain owner to contact them/him/her to start a bid with ? Cause if i use whois.net site it sends me to resellers sites then resellers send me to other sites then ...
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