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ACL, ls, “permission denied” and a lot of questionmarks

I have two users, Alice and Bob. Bob should be allowed to list, ls, Alice's home directory. Alice also has a file in her home directory that Bob should also be allowed to read. I run these commands ...
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using root to mkdir in another users home directory

having a bit of a difficult time trying to create a folder under another user's /home/devuser1/pubic_html folder. I'm trying to avoid using sudo and looking for an alternative. The permissions on the ...
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Permissions for FTP directory: Inherit directory owner

I am making multiple folders for users (userA/, userB/, etc.) where anyone can create/read a file/folder in any directory (userC can make fileX inside userA/). However, only the directory's owner can ...
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Apache created files and its permissions for CentOS 6.x

In short, I have an authenticated HTTP-POST that: posts a jpg image (created as 666 apache:www) into /directory1 (777 ftpuser:www) creates /directory2 (created as 666 apache:www) in a 777 ...
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Can a user brute-force a directory listing without having read permission on the directory?

I noticed that when a user is working in a directory to which he does not have read permission that using cd produces different error messages, depending on whether or not a subdirectory exists: $ ls ...
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I can not remove folder from server

Accidentall I created the folder on remotely server (Server OS is Linux) using php: mkdir("folder_name",0); Now I can not delete this folder from server. I think this is from permission, because 0 is ...
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Change/Create permissions for a folder

How can I create (if the folder is new) or change (if the folder was already existent) permissions for a folder? In particular, I want to create a subdirectory in /etc/bind/ where I can put the ...
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How to prevent users from deleting a directory?

I tried "chattr +i DIRNAME", it's great, but I cannot create files in the DIR after chattr. What else are there to prevent users from deleting a Directory? root@HOST ~] mkdir test [root@HOST ~] ...
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Hide parent directory but allow to view dir

I would like the following result on my UNIX system: ls -l /users/test -> permission denied, or any other way so I can't see the content of it. ls -l /users/test/testdir/ -> shows all files in the ...
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Why is bash giving me (apparently) conflicting information about a file?

Background I am working on a RHEL 5 cluster. I want my Fortran program to read the file /home/bob/inputs/input_1 I asked Bob to give me permission to read all contents of inputs: [bob@server]$ ...
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How come I can append to files to a directory without write permissions?

I understand this first example: > mkdir foo > chmod u-w foo > touch foo/test touch: cannot touch `foo/test': Permission denied > echo "BAD" >> foo/test bash: foo/test: Permission ...
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How to permanently change the file/directory permission [closed]

How do I change the permission of file/directories such that I am able to create, edit, delete files/directories anywhere in my system? Currently I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I tried sudo chmod 777 -r ...
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Can't rename a directory that I own

I have a directory with a big load of sub directories. I own all of them, and the permissions are all 777. pascal@azazel /box $ ls -al total 147872 drwxr-xr-x 293 root root 12288 aoû 22 19:44 ...
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OSX : rmdir “permission denied” but directory removed

This is a question from a newbie trying to learn UNIX commands. I was trying to test the rmdir command by removing a test directory located in my Downloads directory. I have read and write rights on ...
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How does apache determine what directory to show from public_html?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have configured apache to serve from ~/public_html. I am trying to serve some directory contents over http on LAN. When I did the following: ln -s ...
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execute bit on directories, but not files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to apply recursively chmod directories without affecting files? What is the command to apply execute permission for directories (for traversal), but leave the ...
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change owner of a file and it's parent directories

I have a file that has 10 parent directories. When I change the file's owner with chown command new owner still can't write to file because the file's parent directories still have a different owner. ...
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do not allow a directory to be deleted but make new files in it?

The question in my assignment says this: create a directory temp with all permissions for everybody, that cannot be deleted and copy hello.sh in this directory giving execution rights for ...
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mv file without write permission to the source file

I just realised that I can move a file that I do not own and don't have write permissions on. I have write permissions to the directory, so I am guessing that is why I could move it, but in this ...
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Permissions for a submission script

I'm a TA for an introductory Python programming class (all work is done from the terminal), and I'm writing a project submission script. Ideally I want a directory setup like this: submissions/ ...
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is setting a 0 permission on a directory an effective way to protect its contents?

Let's say that permissions for user and group are set up correctly on a directory. Would a 0 permission for other on that directory provide effective access control for the directory's files and ...
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Can I share a folder inside my home directory with another user?

Can I share a folder inside my home directory with another user? I have two users on a system, agent and daemon. An external server connects as agent and rsyncs files to ~agent/incoming I want ...
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Why can I copy files to, but not create files in, this directory? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on I'm trying to create an md5sum for an ISO image created with the Ubuntu Customization Kit tools. The ...
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A question about permissions of hierarchical directories

I have some directories, with following permissions: drwxr-xr-x 18 user1 root 4096 Oct 27 11:25 /home/test1/test2 drwxr-xr-x 24 user1 root 4096 Oct 21 08:38 /home/test1 drwxr-xr-x 492 root root 12288 ...
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How to search folder with only x set (execution) permission

I have read that if folder has only x set permission to execute it actually means that you are permitted to search this directory. So how to search it?
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Why do directories need the executable (X) permission to be opened?

In my CMS, I noticed that directories need the executable bit (+x) set for the user to open them. Why is the execute permission required to read a directory?
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Prevent a subdirectory from getting deleted / enforce a directory structure

imagine the following folder structure ../documents ../documents/templates I have two user groups: editors managers Users of both groups should be able to create new files modify any ...
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Is there any way to prevent deletion of certain files from user owned directory?

Let's say user has Directory1 and it contains File1 File2 CantBeDeletedFile How to make so the user would never be allowed to delete the CantBeDeletedFile? If I change the ownership of Directory1 and ...
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Permissions of webserver's root directory

I've had this issue on several setups, and I'm unsure of how to handle it. At first, all of /var is owned by root:root. Clearly I don't want the web directory to be owned by root, so I do chown ...
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In Linux, “Write” Permission Is Equivalent To “Execute” For Directories?

The Execute permission makes sense for files (which include scripts etc), but when it comes to directories, write (w) permission works the same way as execute (x), right? Which means, if we are giving ...
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How to move a file to /usr/local in Ubuntu?

I am working in the most recent Ubuntu in a 64 bit machine. I am currently on the Gnome command prompt and I am trying to move a file under the Downloads directory to /usr/local. However, it gives me ...
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reading cifs share fails with permission denied - cifs samba directory permission denied

I'm trying to setup a samba server to share data among clients via cifs. As a test, I mounted the samba share on the same machine and tried to access the contents of the directory. The mount command ...
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Do the parent directory's permissions matter when accessing a subdirectory?

If I have a root folder with some restrictive permission, let's say 600, and if the child folders/files have 777 permission will everybody be able to read/write/execute the child file even though the ...
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`chmod 770 folderName` restrics access to subdirectories & subfiles?

If I run chmod 770 ./folderName, then users who are not the owner or in the group owning ./folderName (i.e. users in the “others” category) cannot access ./folderName/folderB or ./folderName/fileC, ...
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how to view a directory's permission

What is the command with which you can directly view the permission bits of a directory?
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How to set default file permissions for all folders/files in a directory?

I want to set a folder such that anything created within it (directories, files) inherit default permissions and group. Lets call the group "media". And also, the folders/files created within the ...