Questions tagged [ownership]
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Run rsync as root but keep target owner
I've already checked many threads regarding the topic and tried different flags combinations, but couldn't solve the problem.
Scenario: I'm working under user A and have source files owned by A, ...
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How can I run a process as its owner or become its owner without logging in? [closed]
According to https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/489913/674
cron jobs can run as any user, without that user being logged in.
root doesn’t need to log in to start the init process, thankfully (...
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Granting a nonroot-owned systemd service sufficient 'usage' permissions on letsencrypt's SSL key/cert pair
Unrealircd is not allowed access to ssl key/cert pair, ircd-owned systemd service unit fails miserably. The files are managed by lets-encrypt's certbot and root-owned:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K Dec ...
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How to stop permissions on data partition being changed on boot?
I have a data partition (ext4 filesystem) that I mount onto /data, with my user account (the one I use across all distros, same username, same uid and in the wheel group) and the wheel group being its ...
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Unison: always use 'copyprog' for updates
I am using Unison to synchronize files between several clients. Each client is identical, meaning that whenever one client updates a certain file, all other clients must be updated consequently.
The ...
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MacOS: su pkill -9 “process_name” = sorry
How to use pkill as su on a Mac?
When I run su pkill -9 "RFBEventHelperd" in the terminal I get su: Sorry (but works as sudo). I am looking for a way to kill this process from inside a script that ...
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Filesystem mounted as root but owned by user. Why?
I'm mounting a filesystem as root and I don't understand why it is not owned by root but by an unprivileged user.
Here's fstab:
cat /etc/fstab
[...]
/dev/sdb /mnt/projects ext4 defaults 0 2
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user on nfs share
How can I specify which user a new file created on the NFS share is owned by?
I.e. I've mounted a share on a client, userA is creating a file but that file shows as being owned by userB (possibly due ...
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Preserve ownership of entire folder hierarchy in tar?
I can preserve ownership of folderB and all files and folders inside when creating and extracting a tar file as follows:
tar -cpf out.tar folderA/folderB
sudo tar -xpf out.tar --same-owner
However, ...
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Give two users ownership of a directory?
I’m new to Linux-like operating systems, and I’ve come across an issue where when a program tries to create a file or directory, it doesn’t have the proper permissions. Specifically, PHP running as ...
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File attributes, permissions issue
I have a shell script that runs on 2 machine by a job scheduler.
The script generates some text file when it is executed.
On one system, the text file generated has the permission:
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Change ownership of shared memory
When I run ipcs -m, I can see a list of the shared memory segments on the system, like
------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
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Ownership of /var/www/html [closed]
So I've searched this a lot and found conflicting answers.
I would appreciate, for everyone's sake, if someone could come up with a fully reasoned and cited answer for how to set ownership / ...
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Clone ownership and group of coincident name files and folders between two servers
I need to sync only ownership and group of each file and dir between two server filesystems. That's to say if I have server A and server B, I don't need and don't want to copy data from one server to ...
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Owner of /var directory?
Is it safe to change the owner of /var directory the default owner is root.
The sub directories inside var are www/html/domain.com I have changed the owner of all the directories inside var to Apache ...
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What are the standard ownership settings for files in the `.gnupg` folder?
What are the standard ownership settings for files in the .gnupg folder?
After doing sudo chown u:u * mine now looks like this:
drwx------ 2 u u 4,0K jan 18 22:53 crls.d
drwx------ 2 u u 4,0K jan 18 ...
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Change ownership of directory owned by root
As a non-privileged user, owning a directory on an EXT4 filesystem where I have all the necessary rights (rwx) gives me the possibility to change content and ownership of files (e.g. vim file and :w!) ...
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owner/group getting set to `82`
Here's a real weird one for ya. :D
The Issue
I am running a Lando dev environment on a simple dummy LAMP application, as a way to test my custom Lando plugin (working off the console branch). (Lando ...
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Is it possible to mount a SSHFS point in a way to preserve (local) ownerships and permissions?
if I mount a sshfs point as root and use the option allow_other then on the original server (SERVERA) the files are owned by the SSH user, and on the destination server (SERVERB) are accessible (...
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Can I change ownership of the data directory content in a borg backup repo?
I've been using borg-backup for the past few weeks (on Ubuntu 16.04).
Every time I need to mount a backup I've used sudo (sudo borg mount ...); if I don't, I end up with a permission error and the ...
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hdd mount option to grant ownership of files on drive
I have 5 internal drives and 3 external.
I would like the internal drive's files to be owned by my default user hutber
I have tried to chown them with sudo as seen here:
It looks successful, ...
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Why should the rootfs have root ownership
The question maybe odd but i didn´t find any explanation to it, so:
Sevreral tools for generating rootfs use fakeroot in order to fake the permissions, create the rootfs and then archive it. After ...
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Cannot change permissions as root on a file owned by root
The problem is that I have PHP files that do not work in the browser. I suspect because the user is missing read permissions.
The files are located in a dir called "ajax"
drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root ...
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Does file ownership work differently for guest users? If it does could you explain?
I'm self studying for my Linux+/LPIC-1 and I was working through the textbook titled "CompTIA Linux+ Guide to Linux certification" in conjunction with some video courses when this question arose. I ...
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Cannot rename resolv.conf file as root
I am trying to activate NordVPN CyberSec by completing the following instructions in Debian 9.
I should be able to do the changes as root and with sudo like described for Ubuntu in the thread Should ...
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Delete a directory owned by me, containing files not owned by me
I have a directory in my home folder containing some build output, which the build process has chown to another user (for reasons unknown to me.) I want to delete the directory, but can't because it's ...
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Create, as a regular user, a tar with files owned by root
Hi guys/girls from U&L.
CONTEXT
I want to build a tar file as regular (non-root) user with some prepared binaries and configuration files like this;
etc/binaries.conf
usr/bin/binary1
usr/bin/...
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How to maintain the ownership of a file after editing?
My question is similar to this other one, excepted that one asks about newly created files.
In my Unix box, users alice, bob and tomcat are in the group tomcat.
The configuration files of the Tomcat ...
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Disable permission change for a directory
I want to disable the possibility of a permission change for a directory, so for example users couldn't peek into other users home directories.
Is it possible without taking away the ownership?
Even ...
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sshfs mount - files/folder are created as root disregarding uid/gid options
Local: OpenSuse, mount point /home/gruz/debian
Remote: Debian (VirtualBox) 192.168.0.100, mount point /var/www/a
I want to mount folder in 192.168.0.100:/var/www/a to my local machine so when I ...
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Best way to only list files that I own
What would be the best shell command "one liner" that I could use to list all of the files in a directory, only showing those that I own?
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how to change log file creation user in linux
Log files are being created with the root user:
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root xxxx Mar 14 16:53 access_log.1489489200
What is the process to change it to another user? like:
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user xxxx ...
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Rules for File Ownership when user is leaving company [closed]
It appears users are removed from the passwd file when they no longer need access to a server at my current organization. I am finding files with a UID but no associated login. At a previous ...
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How do I make there be no group owner of a file in Mac OSX?
How do I make there be no group owner of a file in Mac OSX, since
chgrp nogroup file
doesn't work? If I try, the group owner doesn't change at all.
