Questions tagged [chgrp]
For questions about resolving errors when attempting to change the group owner of a file.
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Can't create directory in directory owned by group
I have a group called homeperms on an Ubuntu system, with a few users:
$ cat /etc/group | grep "homeperms"
homeperms:x:1004:jorik,tim.wijma,vanveenjorik,jorik_c
And I've done $ sudo chgrp -R ...
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Use AD Groups Instead of Linux Groups
On our file server, we are using a bunch of Linux groups that are still in use and need to be replaced by their counterparts in AD. The groups in AD and /etc/groups have an identical name, so, (I'm ...
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How to operate on a directory with different owner from a script?
Few days ago i have installed elasticsearch,
For diagnosing some problems on my elasticsearch setup, i have checked the logs files located in /var/log/elasticsearch and tailed them but apparently the ...
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Mounting a filesystem with gid=501 or chgrp filesystem after mounting
Is there any difference between mounting a filesystem with gid=501 mount option vs chgrp 501 $fs after it's mounted?
I want to know if mounting with gid mount option buys me anything that chgrp (as ...
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What “chgrp 0” do?
I am analyzing one script and I cannot find online what chgrp 0 mean in the following line:
find $1 -follow -exec chgrp 0 {}
so
find $1 takes parameter,
-follow causes find to follow symlinks,
-...
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How to change the owner and group of a directory by the name of that directory?
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 Nginx server environment with several CMS (WordPress) websites under document root.
All the site directories have www-data as owner and group, recursively.
According to some ...
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How to securely sanitize permissions for a subtree
On our server, there are multiple (currently two, expected three or four) users allowed to deploy a new version of our application. This process consists of downloading a few files from a trusted ...
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How to perform chown and chgrp in one command
In order to change both a file's owner and group we can do this:
chown trump file
chgrp trump file
but can I do both commands in one approach or one command?
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Howto prevent chgrp from clearing “setuid bit”?
We have RH based Linux images; on which I have to "apply" some "special archive" in order to upgrade them to the latest development version of our product.
The person creating the archive figured ...
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Access manpage(2) on OS X
In Mac OS X, at the end of the chmod man page, it shows
See also: chmod(2)
But when I enter
man chmod(2)
It says that there is no such man page. How can I access the man page chmod(2) man page? ...
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custom sysconfdir for coreutils
I compiled coreutils with --sysconfdir=/test/etc instead of default /etc, moved /etc/group to /test/etc/group, and chgrp failed with
chgrp: invalid group: $groupname.
How can I fix that and make ...
