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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USER PERMISSION IN kali [duplicate]
Can anyone tell me what permission are necessary for a file so that it can be deleted by another user of same group?
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stop force save on a file with read only permission
I have a script file that is currently in sudoers, and for security I want this file to be read only... so I issued the following chmod:
chmod 555 test.sh
Now the permissions on this file are
-r-xr-...
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Website cannot write to files or create directories
I've been trying to install TeemIP for about 6+ months now and I've never been able to figure out this issue on Centos7.
The error I get is the following:
The directory '/var/www/teemip/public_html/...
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What does chmod -u do?
By accident I ran chmod -u filename and it removed all of the permissions I had on filename.
The man page does not reference a -u option. Experimenting I was able to conclude that it removes not all ...
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Does Access Control lists override group or owner permissions?
I came across the following task:
Add 3 new users - alice, bob, charles
Create a new group - marketing - and add alice, bob and charles to
that group
Create a directory - /marketing - whose owner ...
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Can't remove a file with file mode bits a+rw
I have a file with the following file mode bits (a+rw):
[0] mypc<johndoe>:~>sudo touch /tmp/test
[0] mypc<johndoe>:~>sudo chmod a+rw /tmp/test
[0] mypc<johndoe>:~>ls -l ...
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chmod without changing stat (atime) of file
i would like to be able to chmod a directory structure without changing the atime of those (files and) directories.
if i start out with a file structure like
$ tree test/
test/
├── test1.txt
└── ...
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Can only write as root although user seems to have full permissions [duplicate]
I am having trouble writing to a samba share from a linux client (a Windows client can read and write just fine). According to ls -la run from the linux client, I should have full permissions:
james@...
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sudo never works. I have no permissions on my computer [closed]
I want to reinstall Linux Mint.....
Many commands start with sudo and then apt-get or whatever. I am never able to get past this. Typical attempt:
john@john-AY022AA-ABA-p6330f:~$ sudo apt-get ...
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What happens if I change chmod permissions to rrr [closed]
I want to try to change /bin/chmod permissions file to rrr but afraid to loose my machine. What happens next if I change them?
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nosuid doesn't prevent chmod u+s
I follow a tutorial to secure my /etc/fstab file. This is a certain part about /var and /tmp
UUID=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX /var ext4 defaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec 1 2
UUID=ZZZZ-ZZZZ-ZZZZ /tmp ext4 defaults,...
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Use chmod command selectively
I want to set 755 permission on all files and sub-directories under a specific directory, but I want to execute chmod 755 only for those components which does not have 755 permission.
find /...
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Man page for file permission numbers
Is there a man page for the file permission numbers?
I'm specifically talking about
r = 4
w = 2
x = 1
I can never remember them and I have to google it every time I need to set permissions besides ...
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Why is /tmp mounted with permissions 0755 when fstab has 1777?
For /tmp in /etc/fstab, I have mode=1777, but after a reboot, the permissions on /tmp are 0755. Another directory /var/tmp is configured in exactly the same way but does not have this problem (see ...
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ls -I myExecutable is listing the rest of the dir files instead of showing info about the file
Working on Raspian, after compiling using make, I do a ls -I myFile in order to see the permissions of the file and if it is marked as executable as it should and instead of getting something like ...
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What happens if we, recursively, change folder permissions after changing files in it?
What will these below commands actually do?
chmod 777 /yoda/htdocs/cups/logs/*
chmod -R -f 777 /yoda/htdocs/cups/logs/
When I check the file permissions in ..../logs folder, they are showing as
-...
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chmod all files in a directory [duplicate]
How do I change all files (different types including .sh, .py, and other executable files) in a known directory to permission 775 without listing all of the file names?
I mean "all" of them in that ...
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Solaris difference between 's' and 'l' in permissions
On a Solaris 11 machine, when I execute chmod 2000 myfile, I get l instead of S or s:
touch myfile && chmod 2000 myfile && ls -l myfile
------l---. 1 pydoge pydoge 0 Oct 16 12:35 ...
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Using octal method,how do I type the exact command I would use to make test.txt have the following permissions dr-xr-x— [duplicate]
Using octal method,type the exact command you would use to make test.txt have the following permissions dr-xr-x---
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can not set user write permissions to file in SMB mounted directory [duplicate]
I have mounted a Windows 10 directory so I can edit some files on my Windownz machine.
sudo mount -t cifds //W10/Users ~/public/ -o username=bobby
When checking the directories they all have the ...
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Permissions denied on files despite 777 mode
I am getting a permission denied error on CentOS 6.10 64 bit
Kindly note that the "#" indicates a Root Level User prompt.
# cd /tmp
# chmod 777 file*
# /bin/ls -l file*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache ...
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Removing and adding permission using numerical notation on the same line
I'm having some trouble trying to remove write permission from the owning group (g), and to add read permission to others (o) at the same time.
How would I remove some permission from the owning ...
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Can't access folder with group permissions
It seems that I can't access a folder on which I put 777 group permissions, even though I am a member of the folder's group.
Error detail :
10:57 ~ $ ls -l
d---rwx--- 2 laurent www-data 4096 août ...
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why while loop works from terminal if ld-2.17.so have no executable permission?
In my previous question, executed "chmod 666 ld-2.17.so" - how can i recover? I asked if I change ld-2.17.so permission to read, how can I recover it back, since it won't allow me to execute ...
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why doesn't setfacl give executable permission?
I ran
sudo setfacl -d -m g::rwx /tmp
then went into /tmp and created a file and looked at its permissions:
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 jm wheel 0 Aug 24 10:26 test_file
then I ran
sudo chmod g+rwx ...
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Change File Permission at run time
I have two users in a group.
Users:
1) apache
2) data
Group
1) apache
I have three directories. The directory structure of that three directories are like below.
drwxrwx--- 10 data ...
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How to add sticky bit to a directory in exFAT?
I get this error from Homebrew when trying to build an application on MacOS 10.10.5, on an exFAT filesystem
Error: parent directory is world writable but not sticky
I use this command to enable ...
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Can chmod on a directory without --recursive change who can read a file within that directory? [duplicate]
Based on the suggested duplicate, let me reformulate my question:
If chmod 0660 path/to/folder is run, and user A isn't in the relevant group, could user A still read /path/to/folder/file.txt if that ...
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How to check if there are “other” permissions in home directories
Right now, I have a script that runs daily that chmod's the home directories, removing all "other" permissions from the directories and the "group" write permission. See below.
#Removing all other ...
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Permissions Based on Lowest Level
My user account, samjaques, belongs to a group sams. I have two folders, both in the sams group. Folder 1 is owned by root, Folder 2 by samjaques. Both have permissions set as ---rwx---. From the ...
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How do I launch Phantombot Jar file on Linux Mint 19 Tara?
So I am following some steps to try and launch this Jar file. I am a Linux Mint 19 user of only a week or so, I used it once before but briefly.
$ chmod +x launch.sh
I am trying to launch this ...
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How to create a file that only sudo can read?
I'd like to have a file on my computer that stores a particular token (rather than having them just exported to the shell env). As such, I'd like that the token can only be read by sudo, so access to ...
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How do I find out what changed a file's user or group or permissions? [duplicate]
Something on our server is changing the user or group or permissions of certain files, and I'm not sure how to find out what's doing it. It seems to be random and our testing has not found out, and I'...
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Give read write-only access to specific folder?
I created an LDAP group rcars. I also created a directory rcars. How can I set permission so that only rcars group can read/write?
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Granting read/execute permission for 'other users' in a directory tree
There is the following directory tree in several of my Linux boxes:
/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/target
Each of the dir[1-4] directories have several directories under them and all these directories (and ...
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chmod very slow on NFS [closed]
Is there any way I can speed up chmod on an NFS server?
I am running chmod on a number of files each time a script is run. It is almost immediate when run locally, but when targeting the NFS server ...
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Give program access to only directories below cwd
Say I run a program like so:
cd foo && program x y z
How can I give program access to only the directories in foo and below?
Pretend my fs looks like:
$HOME/
foo/
bar/
baz/
if I run ...
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What am I doing wrong with my linux commands? [duplicate]
I want to inherit every new file from my group so that I can have execute permissions, and no one else, but when I try to create new ones, it gives me 664 permissions how can I fix this??
sudo ...
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How to set the future permissions of content in folder
Let's say I am the user Alice and I have a publicly accessible folder /samba/public
The permissions of the public Samba folder (/samba/public/) are nobody:nogroup and 0777.
When Alice tries to copy ...
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Automatic rights change when virtual COM ports are enumerated
I am developing a uC device which enumerates as three virtual COMs (actually it is a composite device). Everything works perfect except one small thing. Those ports belong to the dialout group and can ...
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xargs + chmod - file or directory not found
I am trying to recursively change the permission of all files and directories in my project.
I found a post on the magento forum saying that I can use these commands:
find ./ -type f | xargs chmod ...
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Include password when mounting a drive using cifs
At first I using this to mount a shared drive:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=myuser //xxx.xxx.xx.xx/myfolder /mnt/windowsshare/
but then I didn't have modify access or ownership to the shared drive ...
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Executing command for each newline separated [duplicate]
I have this:
chmod u+x $(find scripts -name "*.sh")
But I believe it's only running chmod u+x for the first item in the list from find, since the results are newline separated.
How can I run chmod ...
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Is there a benefit to securing all directories under a parent directory?
The sysadmins at work want us to remove all world permissions from all files and directories within a specific filesystem. Normally, I would agree with such security practices. However, I don't ...
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How to best solve user permission issue where a Lighttpd+FastCGI app's folder is located in /root/?
I have a Flask application on a docker solution.
I have configured lighttpd to drop to "lighttpd" user and group.
Problem is: The flask app is part of a bit larger project that's simply being copied ...
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How can I prevent ROOT from deleting a directory, but still allow root to have full control of all files and subdirectories within it?
chattr +a would be perfect if it only applied to the root of directory, not everything from there on.
Is there a way to limit chattr to just the one folder (e.g. the opposite of -R as is normally ...
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chmod +x: affect file in one OS or all OSes
For example, I have a file named run.sh. I want to make this file executable, so I run:
chmod +x run.sh
My question is:
This command makes this file executable. So if I bring this file to ...
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Giving different permissions to two groups for a single directory?
Let me explain the situation, I have 15 users which are assigned to a bunch of different groups. I gave rwx permissions to all 15 but 2 users (I simply made a group specifically for that) for a ...
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How to give permissions to a subfolder while denying access to folders above it
I have this structure:
/home/the_user/folder/subfolder
and I would like to have read and write access to it, but I want to be unable to read or write anything above it, that is
/home/the_user/...
