Questions tagged [ownership]
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Update only permissions etc. with rsync
I'd like to know if the following scenario will update permissions, ownership, timestamps etc.
Say I transfer a folder from a destination to another using rsync -zr source/ dest/, and then use the ...
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'unarchive' module in Ansible doesn't change owner and group of extracted files and folder
I wrote this to extract the files and folder on a remote server.
It extracts them but doesn't change the owner and group of the extracted files.
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Strange rsync behavior deleting already transferred files
I'm facing a strange issue with rsync.
The server hard disk has failed and I've replaced it with a another one.
The rsync command I'm using is identical and there have been no other changes.
There ...
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How does Linux keep track of file permissions?
This might be a dumb question, however I was wondering how does Linux keep track of the file permissions? We know if we do a "ls -l" we can see the file permissions but when I change the ...
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Permission denied on file with 666 permissions [duplicate]
I run the following commands on a new VM:
$ sudo adduser banana
Adding user `banana' ...
Adding new group `banana' (1034) ...
Adding new user `banana' (1033) with group `banana' ...
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$ sudo touch /...
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Copying a file into a directory where I am a member of the directory group
I am attempting to copy a file into a directory where my user account is not the directory owner but belongs to a group that is the directory group owner. These are the steps I have taken:
Create a ...
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How does Linux handle permissions of files created on a different machine?
As far I know, a file's ownership on Linux depends on the file's owner's UID.
What happens if a user in a different machine has the same UID as a user on the server and then the file is copied to the ...
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Any clues for using a mysql installation on a bitlocked W10 drive, from Linux OS on dual boot?
Booting to Linux Mint 20, I just installed a LAMP stack on this machine, accepting all default choices. But I already have all my databases on a Windows 10 bitlocked partition (now unlocked and ...
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Cannot change the ownership mounting ntfs drive
Why I cannot change the ownership on mounting ntfs drive?
I give uid=1000,gid=1000, etc in my /etc/fstab file, but found it is not working. So I'm testing it out on command line:
root@host:~# mount | ...
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Suddenly cannot change ownership nor permissions of files/folders on internal drive: chown, chmod
I have suddenly lost the ability to use chmod and chown. I am operating within my /home directory. I can still create and delete files. In verbose mode, they both say that the requested changes have ...
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Run clang-format from rootful container on bind-mounted host dir without changing ownership
I want clang-format run from within a container on a bind mounted host directory to keep the ownership of modified files.
I have a simple Dockerfile which I'm running with podman. I bind mount the ...
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How to keep custom icons when copying folders with cp (in Mint, using Nemo)
I am using Linux Mint, with Cinnamon, and Nemo file browser.
I have set custom icons for some sub-folders in my documents folders.
I need to move/copy some of those folders, and I noticed that if I ...
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Permissions and owner when drive moved from one server to another
I'm pretty sure this question is distribution and hardware neutral. I have a USB drive formatted ext4 with a directory (plus subs) configured for minidlna, owned root:minidlna with permissions 775. It ...
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Network Share mounting as root
I have three computers on the network. I am using one as a file server(Debian) and two are mounting a folder on the file server(Ubuntu and Xubuntu 20.04).
Both have the same exact line in the /etc/...
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How to copy entire directory as is (failed to preserve ownership)
I am trying to prepare Raspberry Pi image to be netbooted. I have downloaded IMG file of raspbian (for ex 2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie) and mounted it locally to linux box. I got two partitions. Now I ...
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Ownership, disk drives and permissions
I encountered an issue with a disk drive which I already posted on. (For the curious: Issue with device after formatting)
In short, one of my disks stopped allowing me to copy files by drag and drop ...
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Mounting the Drive to the Raspberry Pi and changing DIR ownership
so, after having followed this guide here https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-mount-usb-drive/
I've ended up with an automatically mounted external fat32 drive but now the ownership of that folder it ...
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Change the Owner access Charlie root to user at a media device, possible?
how can I change owner access from Charlie root to user access for my media devices (partitions /media/da0s1) on FreeBSD?
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Cannot change ownership/permissions of disk
I have an EXT4 disk mounted on /mnt/external I have also tried mounting it on ~/EXTERNALMNT. The disk is not an NFS share. It is an external USB drive. I can read from the disk but cannot write, ...
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how can I change ownership of files in the VirtualBox shared folder (from root:root)
I'm running Windows 10 host and RHEL 4.7 guest using VirtualBox 6.1. I use VMs to build code changes which are delivered to our subs without having to travel to build on target consoles.
The problem ...
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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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user and group not getting set correctly for auto generated files
I am hosting a Magento 2 (onlineshop software) project on my dev machine.
The user and group are set to this:
user -> company
group -> www-data
In Magento 2 some files are getting auto ...
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Owner of folder has no permission on it
I have recently created a user who has no access to any shell commands. Problem is, this user can still vim, nano or ls into any file and see the content. I created a home/username/ folder only ...
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Sharing a directory between users (using ACL) when some files are created with only owner rw (600) permissions
Background:
I'm trying to share a folder between two users on the same machine . The normal way would be to have the two users in the same group set the parent folder to that group with rw and the s ...
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Change owner and group for specific owners only
My apologies for the silly/simple question - yet after searching the web and SE, I cannot find an answer for this specific issue.
Question:
How does one change the owner and group (system-wide) only ...
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How to get the numeric group owner of a file?
For a bash script,
I need to find the numeric group ID from the file ownership attributes, similar to the output of ls -nl, but only the number.
If possible, I would like to avoid big parsing magic ......
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Cannot change ownership in SSHFS/FUSE
I encounter permission denied when trying to change the owner using chown of a folder on mounted SSHFS:
# /etc/fstab
sshfs#ubuntu@my.remote.tld:/mnt/data /data fuse user,_netdev,nonempty,...
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Group owner of ext4 filesystem changed
Having changed from using a Ubuntu-based operating system to using an Arch-based one, all of my ext4 volumes and everything in them have changed from being owned by $USER:$USER to now being owned by $...
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Find specific folders and then change their ownership
I'm running into security issues with multiple Wordpress websites, and I need to recursively change the ownership (and permissions) for folder "wp-content" (and whatever is inside them).
I ...
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exportfs: could not open /var/lib/nfs/.etab.lock for locking: errno 13 (Permission denied)
When I am using this command to check NFS:
exportfs -a
... it shows this error:
[miao@k8sslave3 lib]$ exportfs -a
exportfs: could not open /var/lib/nfs/.etab.lock for locking: errno 13 (Permission ...
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Rsnapshot: folder ownership permissions to 'backups' group instead of root
I am using rsnapshot to make daily backups of a MYSQL database on a server. Everything works perfectly except the ownership of the directory is root:root. I would like it to be root:backups to enable ...
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inotify: avoiding a loop of repeated file changes
I am using inotify (implemented via pyinotify) on my Ubuntu 18.4 system in order to monitor creates, modifies, and attribute changes in certain directories.
I use these watch flags: IN_CREATE, ...
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chmod and chown at the same time?
I have a script I'm running to fix file ownership and permissions after an rsync. Questions of the optimal way to do my task aside, I wonder, is there a way to run chmod and chown at the same time?
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View size and owner on folders, within a folder
Anyone know how to view all the folders within an directory with size, folder/file, owner?
The only command I know of is du -hs *
But that shows all the subfolders aswell and does not show owner.
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Why owners of files and folders can modify it's contents if they don't have permissions on the parent directory?
An example of my question would be the /home directory:
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 29 23:44 home/
So, the owner of /home is root.
But I'm the owner of my personal home folder:
drwx--x--- ...
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Can I avoid using `sudo` to back up files owned by root?
I'm using rsync to back up a set of files in /etc. The 'source' files are on an ext4 filesystem, and the 'destination' is an ext4 partition on a USB thumb drive. My incantation is similar to this:
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Find out what is mounting my external HD and change ownership?
OS: Linux Mint 18.3.
I have an NTFS-formatted external HD which just gets automounted when I boot up. I'm just trying to find out what actually does that, and whether it's possible to set the ...
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PM2 Nodejs Need help with daemon ownership and permissions
I am struggling with under which accounts I should be running the daemon and how to add applications.
I currently have it under root.
PM2 v4.2.3: God Daemon (/root/.pm2)
But when I run my bash ...
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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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rsync permissions only for owned files
I have a directory on my server to which multiple users copy their data using rsync. All users use the options -a -h -v. All users are in the same group used for this directory. All users mount the ...
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How can I automatically revert a file's ownership when changed?
I have a file that is periodically updated by vendor software. When this happens, it changes the group ownership, and my internal system can no longer read it.
Is there a simple way to update the ...
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how to find the owner of user and group from user HDFS
we can grant the permissions as hdfs user for hive as the following
su hdfs
$ hdfs dfs -chown hive:2098
but how to do the opposite way?
in order to verify the owner of hive and hive group?
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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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Cannot change ownership to uid 1001, gid 1001: Invalid argument
I'm installing ONOS and following this guide: https://wiki.onosproject.org/display/ONOS/Developer+Quick+Start
I executed the command
sudo bazel build onos
This will compile and assemble the ...
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Ownership of .gnupg folder causing permission denied
there are some workerNodes in which different users wants to encrpyt or decrypt certain files. for that to happen they import the required keys that they themselves are passing to.
(Hadoop project in ...
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How Do I Transfer Ownership of Files Between Distros?
I currently have Ubuntu installed on one partition and my personal files (Pictures, Documents, etc.) on a second partition. I would like to install KDE Neon in the partition containing Ubuntu, while ...
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Prevent Rsync from changing ownership of the folder of the exclude list
I know there's lot of question around the subject here but I did not found the answer yet (after many research).
I have to upload the code of a web through rsync with a command line like the ...
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Scanned documents only readable by the user that scanned ~linux
I've been troubleshooting some time for this, and I don't seem to be able to work out, what the solution could be.
I have a setup, where the copier is connected to my fileserver, so that when a user ...
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Allow rsync to be run remotely as root, but only to read files. A read-only root user?
I would like to use rsync-over-ssh to pull backups from many remote traget machines to a central backup.
I could do this as the root user, but that would allow me to accidentally run a bad rsync ...
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