Questions tagged [chmod]
chmod is used to change the commonly used read, write, and execute permissions on files. It can change these permission bits for the file owner, the file's group owner, and everyone else. It can also change the more esoteric ‘permissions’ (attributes, reall) like set-user-ID, set-group-ID, and sticky bits.
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Can't delete file - only permissions change - why?
I am trying to delete a file and while it works fine through the shell, when I call my script from another program, instead of deleting the file, it merely changes the permissions to something odd:
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Solution for sudo chmod 700 /bin && sudo chmod 700 /bin
I accidentally run
sudo chmod 700 /bin && sudo chmod 700 /bin
Then I couldn't run sudo or any commands again please is there a solution?
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Make Python3 script callable from everywhere without making it an executable
I've got a folder: /root/Desktop/commands/
This folder contains many Python scripts that should be callable from anywhere from the terminal. How can I make it, that I say once, that all scripts in ...
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Why do files become 'invisible' when execution permissions are revoked? [duplicate]
This is somewhat related to my, now resolved, question here here. When I ran chmod 666 on group of files they stopped showing up in the GUI (thunar) but I could see them when I ran ls. When I found ...
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Files missing in GUI after recursive chmod or chown
I was trying to set permissions on all of the files in a removable hard disk. I had tried chown and chmod on the disk address (i.e. /dev/sdb) but I still couldn't move files as a user. Then I tried to ...
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Is it possible to forbid a specific user from executing files on /usr/bin without changing all files permission to 750?
I understand the concept of managing permissions on Linux with chmod using the first digit as the user, the second as the group and the third as other users as described on this answer in ...
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Permissions on folders vs files?
if I have a folder that's restricted with say 600, thus no access for group or everyone, but the folder contains files with 777, would this be safe?
Are there any work-arounds to access the 777 file ...
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Recursive chmod to 644 where current permission equals 755
I copied a project directory to a portable hard disk, wiped my laptop and copied the project back, but now git reports loads of changes due to files that previously had 644 permission changing to 755.
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Is it possible to set the rights of a file numerically but only to the user? [duplicate]
It is possible to use chmod numerically to set all the rights of a file:
chmod 644 file
Is it possible to set the rights numerically only to user's rights?
I work on Fedora Linux but the question ...
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Can't get permission for partitioned disk
When I tried copying files from my Home/Downloads folder to other partition of my hard drive, it returns the message 'Permission Denied'.
I tried few of these:
It just says: 'Read-only' whatever I ...
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chmod 001 or 111? Unix Permissions for executable files question [duplicate]
I am confused as to what this question is asking me to do. For context, hello is a c++ file.
"Use chmod command again to make hello an executable, but not readable
and not writeable for all users....
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Why rm gives warning when deleting a write protected file?
I have a regular file and I changed its permission to 444. I understand that as the file is write protected, we can't modify or remove the contents of file but when I try to remove this file using rm, ...
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Find and print permissions command in a csh file
Trying to create a .csh file that can find and display permission of the files in the directory.
Using the following content of the script
#!/bin/csh -b
find . type -f \( -name "*.sh" -o -name "*....
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When can a process (with given uid/gid) write a file (with given user:group)?
I'm looking for a "logic statement" to know when file hello.txt owned by user1:groupA can be written by a process owned by user2:groupB.
I currently see only those cases:
the process can write it ...
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Change owner to a file when saved in a specific folder
I have a NAS with a directory for each member of my house.
My user name, is member of each member's group. So I have access to folders of all users.
I want, when I place a file, inside a user's ...
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Running commands with www-data privileges in scripts, crontab and systemd
I've already read "Allow www-data to perform specific commands" article.
But, crontab and systemd invokes scripts using root privilege.
# my-service.service
[Unit]
Description=My Service
[Service]
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Executed chmod -R 777 to home directory by accident, remedy?
I accidentally ran chmod -R 777 to my home directory.
I don't feel the change, but I'm afraid something bad will happen without me knowing.
Is there a way to restore it to normal?
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Can superuser write a file having 000 access permissions?
I know that a root user can read a file even if the access permissions are all set to 0 but i don't understand about the write and execute permissions in specific. Can a superuser write and execute a ...
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fedora can not boot after run chmod -R 777 / [duplicate]
I have a problem in permission and run chmod -R 777 / .
fedora can not boot and stop in 'Started GNOME Display Manager'.
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How to change mode for a file on CentOS 7?
Want to change a file's mode to -rw-------.
Use chmod 755 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys got a result as:
$ ls -la ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 755 Dec 11 03:09 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
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Permission issue
I am using an NTFS filesystem on a separate partition on Debian 9. I would like to change the permissions recursively in one directory on that filesystem.
This are the current permissions:
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How do I make a directory part of a group?
I created a directory and the next step is to make that directory part of a group.
Is this down with chown? Or another command? This is for my schoolwork. We have gone over permissions and changing ...
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useradd account cant login through GUI
I'm using KALI fresh install.
Linux kali 5.2.0-kali2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 5.2.9-2kali1 (2019-08-22) i686 GNU/Linux
I created a user using
useradd akkilah
Then i added this user to sudo group
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How can I create a file with executable permission itself? [duplicate]
How can I create a file with executable permission itself? I want to create a new file with a single command with executable permissions how can I do it?
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File Permissions Script
I'm new to scripting and need assistance writing a script that will go in the /var/log directory, and change all directories's permissions to 777 and all the files permissions to 666 in Linux. Any ...
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Why does getegid work for others but not me?
I have the following test program:
//File: egid_test.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
int egid = getegid();
printf("my effective group is %...
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chmod not working in minGW64 but working Cygwin?
I need to do some file permission changes on win10, while I can run this command under cygwin but not in git bash minGW64, can someone help to explain why?
The result as from the cygwin terminal:
$ ...
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Group member can't write to directory unless added via setfacl — why?
I had an issue on a Ubuntu 16.04 install where a particular user can't write to a folder despite being part of the group.
Permissions:
ls -l
drwxrwxr-x+ 10 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 1 10:52 ...
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Problem with recursive change of file ownership
Have a directory on a hard drive where I want to change all contents from owned by root to owned by tomc. I have tried Nemo, Krusader, and Nautilus (all launched as root, using sudo), all of which ...
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How to allow an unprivileged deployer user to run a certain command with sudo in a specific path?
I created a "deployer" user
# Create user deployer
sudo adduser deployer
# Give the read-write-execute permissions to deployer user for directory /var/www
sudo setfacl -R -m u:deployer:rwx /var/www
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File permissions not working
A file on my CentOS does not have write permission and can not be edited using vim. But using echo it can be written, why?
[root@srv chap2]# cat raj.txt
Hello World
[root@srv chap2]# ls -l raj....
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Files downloaded from FileZilla have “-????????? ? ? ? ?” permissions and I can't chown them with root
I download some files through FileZilla and all of the files in subdirectories have this "???" owner/group permision:
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? file_a.txt
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? file_b....
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chmod: changing permissions of 'datenbank': Operation not supported [duplicate]
I have a USB drive sitting in my raspberry pi and I'm trying to sshfs into the drive.
I already changed the permission of most files and directories on that drive but when I try to chmod 777 ...
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Can't `chmod` mount folder of read-only filesystem
I have a directory (mnt) that has world read access, but when I mount a filesystem into it as readonly (as root) it subsequently shows no world permissions, and if I try to chmod it I get a readonly ...
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I am creating directories using shell script and i am using 'chmod g+s' permission on the directory but the recursive permission is failing [duplicate]
I am creating directories in a shell script with below permissions
chmod -R 770 /user/mydir
chown -R user:mygroup /user/mydir
chown -R g+s /user/mydir
However whenever I am creating a new directory ...
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Issue with changing permissions
I don't understand why the permission does not change for a user when I run the chmod command with fakeroot.
Initially, the file has these permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x a.txt*
When I try to change the ...
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How to change file permission without chmod?
Our college assigned us a homework for Unix.
We have to change the permission of a newly created file to 222 without using chmod.
Decrease the file permission by "222" [Do not use chmod command]:
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How can I change the permissions on a usb flash drive?
My sd card in my usb card reader will not allow me to add files while in ext4. I checked permissions and it's in root. I'm hoping if I change the permissions to non-root, it will let me add files.
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Accidentally ran `chmod -R 755 *`. Is the situation desperate?
[Edit: See full list of commands I ran at the bottom.]
I accidentally ran chmod +x * inside ~/.config which contained two .sh file that I wanted to make executable. There is no prompt for password ...
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Locking down image files in folders
I have a form which uploads a picture to an upload folder on my Gnu/Linux host.
When the user registers, it creates a folder for them, in uploads, and puts their picture into it.
I have disabled ...
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Set default permissions for new files and folders
I have an upload directory which has information fed into it by users, each time a user registers they submit a picture which creates a folder for them in the upload directory and stores their photo(s)...
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How to write to file with redirection/pipes if it's read-only
So this seems to work:
chmod 777 config.json
node declarations.js > config.json
chmod 444 config.json
but that seems like extra steps. is there some way to write to a file with redirection and ...
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Can not access to sudo [duplicate]
I ran the command: sudo chmod -R 777 /
And now I have that: sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
Thank you for help!
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How to change permissions of all the files in my directory?
I used a script to install Hadoop
/opt/hadoop-3.2.0$ ll
total 216
drwxr-xr-x 10 yarn hadoop 4096 јул 9 08:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 јул 9 07:42 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 yarn hadoop 4096 ...
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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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Cannot change file/folder permission on Linux running on VMware
I am using Linux on a VMware on Windows and added a second HDD device today. However, each file or any dictionary that is created on the new device gets executable permissions which are not removable (...
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SetGID on folder with Active Directory users
I have a directory which staff are allowed to sftp into on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. The directory is root:www-data owned (it's a web server) and I've set chmod +t and chmod g+s so data cannot be ...
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Chromeos Linux Beta
I am attempting to install Krita on my chromebook.
I have 'turned on' linux beta and chromeos prompts me that 'Shared folders are available in Linux at /mnt/chromeos...'
Issue
debian@penguin:/mnt/...
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How do I change permissions for only the folder and no subfolders or files contained therein?
I need to change permissions for a root folder, then change them straight back. All permissions for everything else should stay the same.
So, I need to
find out current permissions
change them to ...
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Set File Permissions to Default from Umask
https://geek-university.com/linux/set-the-default-permissions-for-newly-created-files/
So I want my umask (command) which in this case is 0002 to be subtracted (bitwise) from 666 for files and 777 ...
