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LAMP Server setup for personal development
I am setting up a LAMP server in VirtualBox for personal development. This will be an Ubuntu Server 12.04 install, and I will be using Virtual Hosts for Drupal, Yii, and other small PHP apps. Ideally ...
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Ubuntu Bash - Changing permissions to user files for automating Apache VirtualHost creation
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I currently have a small Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine (test environment) with about 3 non-root users created. Each user has their own public_html directory under their ...
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External HDD read/write permission changing from a cron job
So, I run an overnight python script that runs a backup of our web data in the /var/www directory, then moves the backups to an external HDD in /media. The script in scheduled in the sudo crontab ...
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Linux Permissions vsftpd
I have mybb installed and running in /var/www/forums.
I have two users part of the www group, logan and www-data.
I have the recursive permissions of forums directory set to:
chmod -R 755 forums
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Recovering from “chmod -R 777 /” in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Wrongly set chmod / 777. Problems?
I am using Ubuntu for development purposes.
As I work on the database side, there are a lot of things which require file permissions ...
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vsftpd on Ubuntu not obeying filesystem permissions
I'm trying to set an FTP upload to a web root on Ubuntu 12.04 using vsftp.
The user has a local account, username_ftp. I changed their home to their web root in /etc/passwd.
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Changing permissions for files in linux
I have started using Linux recently for development of a project and currently facing some issues with file permissions in the directories.
I have some libraries .so files that I need to access from ...
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Moving a root directory to a separate partition
I'd like to create a new partition and move the contents of the /var directory to it for the security reason of having /var/www and other subdirectories "mounted" with nosuid, noexec, and nodev ...
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Accidentally set /lib permissions to 644
Long story short, I've got an Ubuntu server box that was recently compromised (I believe through a known exploit of an older version of Tomcat, which has already been updated). Part of the exploit ...
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Samba share file permissions - users can't open files that I create
I have set up an Ubuntu server (12.04 LTS) for samba file sharing. The problem I'm having has to do with files that I create on the server. Other users can't open them because I created them under a ...
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getting 553 - cannot create file in vsftpd (ubuntu 12.04)
I'm trying to setup a ftp account for a user that has read/write access to one folder: /items/myuser
I've set up the account with username 'myuser' in Linux with the adduser command. After that, I've ...
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File Privileges
There is one user Lets call him B and he needs access Just to Read the File MEANS READ ACCESS and that file is own by another user A .
How can I grant access to user A's file to User B.
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File permission issues with shared folders under Virtual Box (Ubuntu Guest, Windows Host)
I am using Ubuntu on Virtual Box and I have a folder which is shared between the host (Windows) and the VM (Ubuntu). When I open any file in the share folder in Ubuntu, I can not change it as its ...
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What is the proper solution to a web server trying to write to a directory?
So, I have a box with a "deploy" user. This deploy user owns a code repository and wordpress is running on this box...
When wordpress attempts to do something like upload a plugin, it is using the ...
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When does chmod fail?
Under what circumstances will chmod fail?
I looked at the man page but it only specifies usage and doesn't go into details about what circumstances it won't work in.
I'd assume chmod will work if:
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Specific directory permission for one user using sftp
My web server structure looks like this:
/Home/User/Public_Html/Website_one
/Website_two
/Website_three/Directory_one
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scp permission denied after 'hardening' with bastille
I recently 'hardened' two Ubuntu servers using Bastille, and now I get permission denied: scp whenever I try to scp files in.
SSH login works fine.
I've tried adding an /scp-dump folder with 777 ...
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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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Apache 403 Forbidden on sub folders?
I can view all files in the root directory (/var/www) but as soon as i enter a sub directory (eg /var/www/test) i get a 403 Forbidden error. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.01.
Have tried searching for ...
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Problem opening .dvi files
I would like to know why my Lubuntu 11.10 does not open my .dvi files created with Latex.
Please, can anybody help me solve this problem?
When I use evince L1.dvi, in the terminal, the evince ...
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Allowing write access to an SMB mounted drive
Following this guide I was able to get my Samba share to mount on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. I can navigate the folders just fine. However I cannot create a directory nor create a file. I get the ...
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Strange file ownership with Ubuntu
Normally we know when we create one file in Linux, the file's owner and group will set with the creator. For example, I have one user, usera, after I execute
usera@srv1:$touch 1.txt
I will find the ...
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Permisions overwritten when files are transfered via FTP. What to do?
Got my web server up and running using apache2 with the ability to ftp to /var/www folder. However, if I make an update to .html and copied over the file via ftp, the file's permisions become more ...
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What is the default permission of folder /var?
I am a complete beginner in Linux. I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 in a pendrive, then installed MySQL and Apache PHP and then I tried to install Moodle (a distance learning platform I use at work).
The ...
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Evince fails to start because it cannot read .Xauthority
I'm logged in remotely over SSH with X forwarding to a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). Most X11 applications (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal) work fine. But Evince does not start. It seems unable to ...
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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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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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Find a user's writable files and directories
How can I determine all files and folders that given user can write to? The user is nobody. Some script in bash or python, perhaps? I'm using Ubuntu 11.04
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Problem when installing “ia32-libs”
I'm using x64 Ubuntu. A few months ago I accidentally messed up the groups/owners of all files on /, but managed to fix it using a VirtualBox install of Ubuntu.
Now I'm running into a problem that I ...
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Grant permissions using rysnc
I want to use rsync (as a user) from "me" on a local computer to "another" user on a distant computer. However, I also want "another" user (on the distant computer) to own the files and to be able to ...
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How can I create a unionfs-fuse mount that is readable by all?
I'd previously used aufs2 in aufs-tools with some luck, but apparently this package has been "superseded" (this is strange term to use for a package which seems to have been removed only because it no ...
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Is it Safe to chown on /usr/lib?
Can I do this?
sudo chown -R myUsernName /usr/lib
I mean can I do this without worrying that my OS will be broken? Or permissions will be screwed up?
Here is the reason why I would like to do it
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How to get back sudo on Ubuntu?
I have done this:
sudo chown -R myname /usr/
and now I can't use the sudo command because of this error:
sudo: must be setuid root
And as I read this means that the owner of this file ...
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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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Changing owner of NAS drive
I have setup a Freenas system that I would like to mount on my Ubuntu Desktop. Freenas is configured with cifs service.
When I open the freenas server in nautilus smb://freenas/homenas/ I can create ...
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Why do I get an “rsync: failed to set times on … : Operation not permitted (1)” error on Ubuntu 10.10 with SME Server 7.4?
I am trying to cron an rsync via ssh between two fileservers that are running SME Server 7.4 and Ubuntu 10.10, respectively. The first rsync worked just fine (for reasons that I do not know), but now, ...
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Default File Permissions - Ubuntu & VSFTPD
I have a server setup with Ubuntu, Apache2 and VSFTPD. We virtual host several sites on this machine. Typically, I use the same process to set up the new sites, but the default permissions for some ...
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Create directory in /var/run/ at startup
I'm using apache2 and postgres running on Ubuntu Server 10.04.
I have removed the startup scripts for both of these apps and I'm using supervisor to monitor and control them. The problem I have run ...
