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Safe to change owner of OS X system folders?
I'm trying to get Homebrew to work. That program's diagnosis tool gives me these suggestions:
You should probably chown /usr/local/etc
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You should probably chown them:
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chmod and chown not working in sudo called script
Based on this Serverfault question, my git user has permission in sudoers to run a wrapper script to move files into my webroot with git.
Everything is working fine except for the chmod and chown ...
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Able to delete file without permission [duplicate]
I've been experimenting with file permissions and ownership lately, and I tried this:
touch a
sudo chown root:root a
sudo chmod 000 a
I can't read, write, or execute the file, but I can still ...
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How to create a folder which will change its contents’ ownership to what the folder has?
In a GNU/Linux OS there is no way to change ownership of a file until you are root. But what if I want to hide my system’s username e.g. before sending a file to someone, because some things like tar ...
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Giving SSH users read-only access to a directory
I'm running Fedora 17 and I want to give several users access to files on my secondary hard drives on /run/media/haukur/. This is what I initially did:
chmod -R 755 /run/media/
But every time I ...
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If I change permissions on a tar file, will that apply to the files inside it?
I have a script that runs regularly via cron, that creates a tar.gz file for the purpose of backing up a directory.
For reasons beyond my control, the only user who can execute the script via cron is ...
