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how to keep file owner same for newly created files
This question is regarding samba file access.
I have created a folder A, and under folder A created two folders B and C. And also created three users A, B and C.
User A has access to all three ...
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What are common rights for /tmp ? I unintentionnally set it all public recursively
I have abused sudo.
I have created a really really short life temporary directory that I wanted to share between some users for a few hours... and I named this directory /some/path/tmp
Unfortunately ...
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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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Taking file ownership when file and directory is readable/writable
I got some files in directory:
drwxrws-wt 2 me mygroup 4,0K 10.1. 12:34 .
-rw-r----- 1 someone mygroup 10G 10.1. 11:22 someonesfile
me and someone are regular users without supplementary ...
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Mount cifs Network Drive: write permissions and chown
I have access to a cifs network drive. When I mount it under my OSX machine, I can read and write from and to it.
When I mount the drive in ubuntu, using:
sudo mount -t cifs -o ...
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security concern around adding cron user to web application group
I have a permissions issue on my CentOS 5.6 machine with regards to the cron user.
On my test/staging environment my cron user (picco-cron) is a member of one group - picco-cron, as below:
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chown removes sticky bit: bug or feature?
Steps to reproduce:
germar@host:~$ cd /tmp/
germar@host:/tmp$ touch test && chmod u+s test && ls -la test
-rwSr--r-- 1 germar germar 0 Nov 2 20:11 test
germar@host:/tmp$ chown ...
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How to restore default group/user ownership of all files under /var?
I accidentally changed /var owner/group to my username and then changed it back to root, but not all the /var folders' owners are root, so is there anyway to change back owner/group of files/folders ...
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How to revert chown command?
If I run:
sudo chown -R user:user /
Can I revert it to what it was before I ran it?
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1answer
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How should I rsync files in /var/www if I want them to be owned by www-data?
I have set up a new ec2 ubuntu box and installed apache and php5. By default you log onto the box with the ubuntu user who has sudo privileges.
I believe apache runs as root and php5 runs as ...
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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 ...
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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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Denied permission to change ownership
I am trying to change the ownership of a folder and all its contents to www-data, but am being denied permission to change it. I am root. and I've tried using sudo but nothing works.
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Why can't a normal user `chown` a file?
Why is the chown command root-only?
Why can't non-root users use chown to give away files they own?
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Changing user and group ID system wide (including file system attributes)?
(this question possibly related to Linux: simulating/masking user ownership upon mount of 'external' partitions? - Stack Overflow)
I typically use Ubuntu (currently 11.04) as my desktop OS; let's say ...
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Clone ownership and permissions from another file?
Is there a command or flag to clone the user/group ownership and permissions on a file from another file? To make the perms and ownership exactly "like" that of another file?
