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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How to force set (not subtract) permissions to future files?
I have a program on Ubuntu Linux that creates a logs/error.log file with a permissions 660 (rw-rw----) or 640 (rw-r-----). But I want the file permissions always to be 666 (rw-rw-rw-) (including when ...
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Chrome OS Crostini: Fix for 777 usr permissions
As you may know, Chrome OS is running a Linux Container (Crostini)
and for my university course I needed to install Naviserver which is installed in
/usr/local/ns$
My problem was that I needed to get ...
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How to copy all file attributes to another file without modifying a content?
I have file created and modified a few years ago. I would like to create new file B with different content, but same everything else, permissions, owner, group, creation date, modified date. So that ...
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Restore executable permissions to files
I mistakenly ran chmod -x * in my /home thinking I was in a subfolder (wrong terminal). Now I'm getting all kinds of errors from different applications. Is there a way for me to detect which files ...
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File Permissions keep changing back
We have a cent os7 server that recently had a new user added. It seems that during this process permissions were wrongly updated. After I have fixed the permissions to suit the site required ...
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Why am I not able to give write permission to users using chmod in linux?
The current file permissions look like this:
$ ls -l file
-rwxrwxr-x 1 chiranjitd chiranjitd 0 Oct 30 14:52 file
Now I try to give write permissions using chmod:
$ chmod +x+r+w file
After that, the ...
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Can I give a single non-sudo user access to run a single command without sudo? [closed]
Is it possible to give a single user without sudo access, the ability to run a sudo protected command like chmod?
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How can I change the permission of an external hard drive and access it?
I try to access an external hard drive with an ntfs filesystem from NixOS.
Is it correct that I have to create a mounting point? Where do you usually create a mounting point?
sudo mkdir -p /media/b/...
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Ubuntu - chmod g+s does not make new files inherit group
I installed a fresh ubuntu with apache2.
I created a new folder "/var/www/foobar" with the following user:group -> black www-data.
I need new files created inside this folder to inherit ...
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rm -rf : is there an all or nothing (atomic) approach?
Let's say I have the following structure :
$ mkdir d1
$ mkdir d1/d2
$ touch d1/f1
$ touch d1/d2/f2
$ chmod u-w d1/d2
If I try to remove d1, I can't because I don't have write permissions on d1/d2. ...
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Correct permissions and ownership, still get "operation not permitted" with chmod
I'm getting "operation not permitted" even though I am in the group that owns the folder (and parent folder).
[acoder@box documents]$ chmod 770 customer123/
chmod: changing permissions of '...
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Reading/Accessing a file owned by user account which is under a directory that is owned by root
I have a ssh only user account called pgbackrest with disabled password .
I have created a directory /etc/pgbackrest/ as root (sudo mkdir -p /etc/pgbackrest). Then I create a config file under the ...
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chmod 070 allows all but owner of file to wrx
Directory permissions:
d---rwx--- 2 root wheel - 512 Aug 5 15:43 Test/
File permsisions:
----rwx--- 1 chambi wheel - 33 Aug 5 15:42 loop.py*
Both the directory and file only ...
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How to check and assign execute permission to the shell script files?
I'm looking to write a .sh script to assign execute permission to all .sh files that have not been assigned execute permission in the current directory and subdirectories.
I can easily assign execute ...
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interpreting results of ls-l
I'm having trouble interpreting the results of ls -l in my directory:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 37114 Jul 24 02:13 madison_events.json
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 131355 Jul 24 16:00 ...
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Allow all users to use chmod on a NTFS file system
Issue:
I have a dual-boot PC, Ubuntu / Windows 10, that share access to a NTFS disk partition (mounted as /DATA/ in Ubuntu).
I need to avoid the "Permission denied" error when a chmod ...
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Why I can't open text files when execetue "x" permission is on?
for example I have test_file and I run sudo chmod 775 test_file so now while I'm the owner I can read,write and execute it but with graphical interface it doesn't work, I don't have any error messages ...
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Linux file permission confusion [duplicate]
My home folder contains 2 users. 1 admin users and 1 guest.
I basically want a guest user not to be able to change the directory to a directory outside his own home folder when he logs in via SSH ...
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How can I revert the permissions of /etc? Whole system stopped working
I am looking forward for this question.
How can I revert a chmod on the etc directory?
I have tried all the methods, but I am still not able to restore the permissions of my /etc directory.
sudo: ...
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How do I handle file names with spaces when changing permissions for certain files in the current directory and all its subdirectories?
I am currently trying to set all files with extensions .html in the current directory and all its subdirectories to be readable, writeable, and executable by their owner and only readable (not ...
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chmod to change permissions of specific user
I have two users, user1 and user2. I also have a file in /path/to/file. user1 should be able to have read-write access, while user2 should only have read access.
I know that I can change permissions ...
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Starting Wso2ApimWorker - /opt/wso2/wso2am-analytics-3.2.0/bin/worker.sh: line 68: /opt/wso2/wso2am-analytics-3.2…ão negada
I have an installation of wso2am-analytics-3.2.0 that I unzipped in /opt/wso2/wso2am-analytics-3.2.0, in support of this I created the services: wso2ApimWorker.service and wso2ApimDashboard.service as ...
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Setting up admins to manage kafka cluster
I have logged in as root to my centos OS. I have setup Kafka inside the /opt directory. I have setup a group called kafka-admin to which I will then add users who can then manage the cluster ...
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chmod file permissions under home directory
I am a beginner here at unix administration. When we create a Unix user, we get a home directory for the user. Inside the home directory i.e ~/ for all the files and directories that we create, what ...
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www-data user cannot access USB drive mounted in /var/www/html/folder
I have an Raspberry Pi with mounted USB external drive.
I've mounted this USB (/dev/sda1) to /var/www/html/owncloud/data/drive as I want to be able to access it from my PHP applications (precisely: ...
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Avoid deleting files in my own directory - chmod command
I want to make sure that files I have in a specific directory cannot be deleted. Which chmod should I choose to be able to reads and use the files while still not be able to delete them? I would like ...
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How to make a directory really undeletable?
I'm using this commands to make DIRECTORY undeletable:
sudo chmod 000 DIRECTORY
sudo chattr +i DIRECTORY
But I can delete it using this commands:
sudo chattr -i DIRECTORY
sudo rm -rf DIRECTORY
How ...
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Directory changed into a regular file upon a UI drag/drop, now how do I change it back?
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04LTS with the latest Linux kernel 4.4.0-206-generic from Canonical (which could be bugged), and I've never seen anything like this before!
Somehow, simply dragging and dropping a ...
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How to affect only files who only have paths within a directory?
If i understand it correctly, in linux, a file can have an arbitrary number of paths. Suppose some user wants to change permission of their /home/<user> files so that all their files can't be ...
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`chmod g+s` returns success even though it actually fails, and only works as root
ls -l cgi-bin returns drwxr----- 3 user http 4096 Mar 16 22:35 cgi-bin. After doing chmod g+s cgi-bin, it returns success but nothing happens. What could be the cause of this? (if i try edit read/...
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What's the difference between `chmod a+x` and `chmod +x`? [duplicate]
Found an article saying to use chmod a+x to add execute permission to a file. What is the difference between it and chmod +x? (And is there an easy way to search about these differences in man pages? &...
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create hidden file to windows remote share
my user uid is 1000, windows 10 has ntfs FS, from linux executing:
mount -t cifs //win-ip/share1 /home/user/remote-dir -o,username=XXX,password=XXX,uid=1000,gid=1000
I can write, read and executing ...
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Permissions of files shared via VirtualBox Shared Folders are not shown correctly in VM
I'm running VirtualBox; host and VM (guest) are both Ubuntu 20.04. I've shared the whole file system of the host (ext4) via VirtualBox Shared Folders capability for VM. I had to add my user on the VM ...
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How does one execute a script that has been piped in?
Starting with the execution context so that the problem makes sense:
I am running scripts written in Windows Subsystem for Linux. In this context, scripts written can sometimes accumulate carriage ...
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find files with -perm and change perms
I need to find all files in a directory where “other” have permissions to read, write, or execute, and I need to apply those permission to “group”.
Example: if file1 has rwxr--rw-, this would change ...
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Is it ok to chmod a+w files under sys/platform in a desktop env?
I developed and maintain a keyboard backlight CLI/GUI for Linux-running Clevo laptops (https://github.com/webketje/tuxedo-backlight-control). Some of the files this CLI/GUI needs to alter are under /...
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How to set correct permissions for .pem file under Ubuntu on WSL?
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS under WSL and would like to use an existing .pem file to connect via ssh to a remote system using Windows Terminal. Initially, the access rights for the file weren't ...
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Debian: Nextcloud : Can't create or write into the data directory /mnt/disk0/nextcloud-data/
I installed nexcloud on my debian install. When I run:
sudo docker run -d -p 8080:80 nextcloud
I get some random hash. Than I go to localhost:8080 where is set up screen. I fill up all textboxes and ...
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change permissions with find for specific files
Let's say I have a directory called permissions, that contains several files with different access rights.
What I want to do is if a file has access rights for others category, I want to accord the ...
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Unable to `mkdir` in /mnt/ and cannot `chmod`
I'm following this guide on my Ubuntu Azure hosted VM and need to make a directory in /mnt/. For this question I'll just change the directory I want to create to "test". I keep getting the ...
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correct way of storing external programm and making it executable?
I downloaded the CLI Client habash for the habit/routine gameification project habatica.com.
In the fandom wiki for habash it is written that, I need to set environment variables. Additonally I want ...
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setuid not allowing me to run script as root? [duplicate]
I wrote this tiny script:
#!/usr/bin/env -S bash -xeuo pipefail
whoami
cd /repo && git fetch origin master && git merge -s recursive -X theirs origin/master
And set the u+s bit which ...
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How to give write permission to apache user
I am a beginner in server management.
I am using the class.upload.php library so that users can upload files from my website.
To this, I give a full path like: uploads/gifs/90/x.gif
This path does not ...
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chmod command to persist file permissions
This is part of Ansible automation where I have to run a single chmod command and read the permission from the users. Thus,
chmod -R $fileperm <filename>
However, at times the user may not ...
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Accidentally ran chmod +x /* - How bad did I just mess up?
I wanted to mark all of the files in the directory I was in as executable, and I ran chmod +x /* because I thought that was the command to mark all the files in the directory you were currently in as ...
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Allow file read only through application
I have a file with a secret and a generator application that reads it and generates something similar to a license.
There are users on that Linux machine who are allow to use that application.
Because ...
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chmod + x.. File fails to open [closed]
When I run the shell script on the terminal, It wouldn't work for some reason. let's say my file name is final_exam.sh, and below are my command.
chmod 755 final_exam.sh
sh final_exam.sh
and it says
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Root cannot append to file in /tmp [duplicate]
As root run:
cd /tmp
seq 10 > foo
chmod 666 foo
seq 10 >> foo
chown daemon foo
seq 10 >> foo
This gives:
-bash: foo: Permission denied
It is clear that it is due to /tmp's special ...
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SGID Bit prevents from changing to that directory
I have a problem which makes no sense in my mind. Could you please give me a hint what im doing wrong?
I have a folder called files which has those rights:
# ls -lart | grep files
drwxrws---+ 19 ...
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Setting permissions on files and folder - is folder perms inheritance always implicit?
Objective: Creating a folder on the root, chown to group and add users to group - but users get too wide permissions!
Consider the following:
# as root
# we need a user group
groupadd team1
# we ...
