I'm trying to change the permission of /media/external which is my external HDD that I want to share with read/write rights over LAN. Tried both Nautilus and chmod as simple user and as root to no avail. Permissions keep reverting back to default.
I have a feeling that Linux for security reasons does not allow me to share the top directory of a device... As any way to work around this?
Finally I managed to install my printer/scanner drivers.The last thing I need to do is to add the following two lines to 40-libsane.rules (which is a read only file):# Brother scanners ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes".How can I change permissions for this file or add these lines without changing permissions?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi try to copy file music .oog .wav from Music folder to /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo but i can't and in folder /stereo i can't manage rename ,cut ,move to trash for all file .ogg when i right click at file to look Properties > at permissions i saw owner : root can not change these permissions
that 's i not understand about owner . and how i can change these permissions ?
I just upgraded to fedora core 11. I need to change the permission of the html folder. The owner is currently set to root. Since there is no longer a root user (I just found out) it will not let my user account change the permissions in that directory from. How do you change directory permissions in fedora 11?
View 2 Replies View Relatedafter a fresh install of fedora 13 I was expecting a few niggles and here's one, I've googled and read man chmod and chown and there seems to be plenty of conflicting advice, oh yeah the problem, I installed a package called get_iplayer (allows downloading of bbc iplayer content) via yum, only thing is I can only run it as root whereas in f12 I could as a normal user. It's probably the simplest command to change permissions, also I can't find any info on what the different numbers mean (775 777 etc)
View 11 Replies View RelatedGet Fedora 11 and Apache installed. Open web browser and enter http://localhost and I get a "Fedora Test Page" that shows Apache is working (according to the info on the page). It says to put my web documents in /var/www/html/ ... however, as a user I cannot access it (put anything there) and I can't change the permissions (belongs to root) I'd like to run this as an intranet web server in our small ( <100 users) company.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an NTFS partition that I use to swap file back and forth between Vista and F13. I store school files in there, like documents and text files. When I use Nautilus to access the partition, I am always asked for my root password. This is a little annoying. Is there anyway I can keep this from happening?
I have my Windows partition set up to auto mount with fstab. I can access it fine in the command line and launchers that I created with out the root password. I suppose I could do the same for this partition, but I would like to access it directly with Nautilus if it is possible.
I am having a few security issues with fedora15. they are like i cannot modify any folder in orher partitions of my HDD unless i am a root user. i have tried the GUI approach bt it doesnt help. there are more than a few hundred folders with thousands of files in total. tell me a way so that i can change permissions for one drive at once.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a Fedora 15/Ubuntu 11.04 dual boot. In Fedora, I just created a new logical volume. How do I ensure that anything I put in it - all files and folders - will be accessible in Ubuntu? II also want to be able to add files and folders in Ubuntu and then read and write them in Fedora...
Here's the output from "lvdisplay" for the logical volume in question:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/fedora/Everything
VG Name fedora
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/home/gwyn/Everything is the mount point for the logical volume. I got full access over all files in the LV.
But when I shutdown Fedora and start up Ubuntu, I have to run the same chmod command again. How can I make read/write permissions endure between both distros?
I'm new to Ubuntu Linux but have many years on windows platform. Please can someone help me with how to change the following items.
No.1 I would like to change the HORRIBLE!! YAK!! brown background color behind the word Ubuntu in the start up screen when the machine loads up (before the login). I have located the image file for this which I have found to be: /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg_2560x1600. jpg but the OS says that root is the owner and that I don't have permission to change this. So how can I change this for a color I do like.
No.2 I would also like to change the login dialogue screen style. I know this is possible but again I'm fumbling to see how I can do this. I have tried with the start up manager but every attempt fails, the settings don't take. Once again I suspect permissions are at the bottom of the problem?
No.3 Would like to have a colorful splash screen image on boot up, I've managed to remove the old one (small white 3 ring ubuntu logo on black background) but havent been able to install or replace with a new one. Its been incredibly frustrating, I'm feel sure I'm missing something simple here. Wondering if its permissions yet again?
Anyone who can offer help on any of the above, guidance or advise me would be much appreciated. Please bear in mind that I'm still very much feeling my way with Linux so keep it simple.
If this information excists here so sorry I was not able to find it. How to change permissions in Unbuntu for those people who are trying to change persmissions in a subdirectory.
Open the terminal and then type: Quote: sudo chmod yourpermission number /thenameofyourdirectory
Example:
Quote: sudo chmod 755 /directory
How do I change folder permissions without changing the permissions of the files within the folder?
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow do I set all *.java files in the current directory and all its sub directories to have read permission to all users?
I also want to set all files of at least 1 kilobyte in size in the current directory and all sub directories to have a group of admin.
I have a Debian Wheezy 7 installation. When I turn it on it boots to the log in screen normally. However when I type in my username/password and try to login the screen briefly turns off for about one second and returns to the log in screen. I cannot log in.
This started happening immediately after I changed the owner and permissions for the "/tmp" folder and all of its contained files/directories. This is the only change I made to the system before the problem began. Immediately after I made the change, I rebooted the system and that's when the problem began.
I'm trying to change the autoplay value in an .inf file that is embedded in my western digital MyBook; but I can't get past the read only property no matter what I try.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an external hard drive which has the mac os filesystem (hfs+) and it is read-only. I was trying things like 'sudo chmod 777 /path/to/my/drive' or 'sudo chmod -R u+w /path' but it wasn't working.
I just want to be able to have write permissions, anyone know how?
for some reason i am not allowed to change the permissions on my hhd i have a 3G partitioned off of it but i cant acess the other 290G what i can do to get permission
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy HD is partitioned in 3 volumes. The one witch is Ubuntu installed, I can change the permissions normally. The other ones I try to change the permissions on the properties and on terminal using chmod, but none of those work. They work only in the Ubuntu partition.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 10.10 and mythtv. I am trying to get recordings to appear in "watch recordings". I went to var-lib-mythtv-recordings to watch a recording. It wont play so I checked the properties and permissions. It says "You are not the owner, So you cannot change these permissions" I'm logged in as adminastrator and I'm the only one with access to this computer. I cant find a way to change the permissions.
View 2 Replies View RelatedRecently I installed ubuntu 10 on my machine. Installed using windows installer and it is installed in one of the windows drive. It didnt asked me for root password, so i used sudo -i to become a root user.
now when i was trying to execute a file named all.bash [URL].. using ./all.bash but it says permission denied error. I saw that the file have only read and write permission. I tried to change the permission by using chmod u+rx all.bash but it does nothing. Is there any way to change the permissions.
how to use permissions. I ran into a weird problem in which I am unable to change permissions as root. I have a file I've been testing commands on, and somewhere along the line I think I gave it zero permissions. Now I'd like to restore some permissions, but can't. Here's what I'm looking at:
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jeremy@jeremy-laptop:~/test$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 jeremy jeremy 235 2011-05-17 13:15 onelink
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeremy jeremy 27 2011-08-02 18:05 threecopy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jeremy jeremy 27 2011-05-09 17:10 three.txt
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Originally Posted by slackuser67 In my case it was a permission thing. Logging in as root, sound worked, logging in as user didn't. I followed the adding myself to the audio group and that didn't do it either. But, adding myself to the video group did the trick. You wouldn't think that would work with getting video but no sound, but it did in my case. I'm having all the same problems, but I'm using DSL-N, and I can't figure out how to check or change the group permissions.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to figure out how to change the permissions on Wine, so that the only thing the users on this computer can do is access the programs on Wine that are already installed. Here's what I did already:
- Accessed Home Folder
- Accessed 'Hidden' folder called '.wine'
- Right Clicked on 'dosdevices' and changed permissions to 'Access Only'
- Right Clicked on 'drive_c' and changed permissions to 'Access Only'
Now I need to know how to set these permissions in order to lock them permanently. Keep in mind that I am a newbie and may not understand in depth lingo regarding the terminal.
Im new to these forums heres my story:Windows 7 on my acer extensa 5230e became corrupted so i installed linux Ubuntu 10.04 on a 320 gb external hdd. I have installed Mixxx and am trying to create my own skins for it. But whenever i try and paste the folder into the /usr/share/mixxx/skins folder it says that I dont have permission toam an administrator... or at least thats what it says i have trie chmod a+w it but it says operation denied: Code: chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/share/mixxx/skins'
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having a USB disk.I want to change the permissions of folder on it from 700 to 755 (and all subdirectories in it)ls -l showstotal 26Quote:
drwxrwxrwx 2 tkmsr tkmsr 2048 2010-02-12 04:12 HPLAUNCHER
drwx------ 7 tkmsr tkmsr 4096 1970-01-01 05:30 vol1
drwx------ 1 tkmsr tkmsr 20480 2011-01-03 17:43 vol2
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I make a new msdos partition (msdos) with Parted for data exchange with Windows. owner group is root (Parted requires root to work), but owner user is my current user. so neither can change permissions. I can't change partition label, too.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSometimes, after a reboot or when re-launching the graphical desktop with startx it yells at me: Can't... (and failes).Normally, the permissions for /usr/bin/Xorg are set to:
Code:
-rws--x--x 1 root root 1791736 15. Apr 18:30 /usr/bin/Xorg
but when the error occurs and I look at the perms I find:
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I just wanted to set some file permissions right. As root:
Code:
# chown -R kikinovak:users /home/kikinovak/Documents
But all I get is a series of "Operation not permitted" errors. What's going on here? I tried this:
Code:
# find /home/kikinovak/Documents -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} ;
... with the same strange errors.
If I try to copy a file onto a NTFS partition in Linux, I get a warning message Could not change permissions for <file-name>. Is there any way to suppress this message ? I can live with this message while I copy the files in terminal, but when transferring from Dolphin a modal dialog box is shown and it gets pretty irritating. I'm using openSUSE 11.2, on KDE 4.4 RC.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've already formatted it 3 times, it works for 1 try then it turns read Only again. I'm looking for a fix that doesn't make me delete everything before I want to use it, because this is getting ridiculous.
Going into further detail:
Randomly when sticking the USB into the PSP the console/computer chooses that it's READ ONLY and you can't change anything in permissions.