i have a directory ( /dir1) that belongs to a user1:group1. I need to know if this is possible and if so a basic idea of how to. when i copy a file into /dir1 (as root) i would like it to obtain a different user and group. Is this possible?
View 1 RepliesIs there a method at the command line to copy files from one location to another and retain the source files group and user?I'm migrating some MySQL files from one machine to another.I want to back-up the original files in the directory presently. They have owner:group of mysql, some have owner:group root:mysql and so on. To copy them under cli or Nautilus everything changes to root for I execute sudo cp or gksudo nautilus and copy via gui.
Since it is MySQL data I could simply do a dump of the database and restore it on the other machine. But there's about 20 db's and I want to do this via a copy for it will be faster - at least that is what I think.
i want secondary users can able to change the files permissions of primary group?user MAC is having www as a primary and httpd as secondary group. But he want to change the file permissions (chmod) httpd group files. Is it possible or not? I think its not possible. If it`s possible then let me know how?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow can I create a user group that restricts Internet privileges to only members in the group, then I will assigns certain applications to join the group for access to the Internet.
For example, I want only group net to have access to the Internet. Group net is then connected to:
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So far, I am using the gnome group policy manager that is standard with ubuntu but Its not working. It is possible that im misdirected and that I should use a firewall instead?
I do have an Ubuntu Headless server which is running Samba on it. My mp3 file collection resides on that server on is being share.
So far, no problems connecting to that drive and writing from my Windows box on that share. But if I use my main laptop, which runs Ubuntu Lucid and download an mp3 song from Amazon, the moment I move that to the share, I got permissions problems from the Windows machine. This is clearly a permission issue with group and others; the song is being created on the share without read and write permissions to others or the samba group I created.
My question is. How can I make this process simple or automatic, when moving songs to the share? I don't want to go there everytime and run ...
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Which was basically how I reset or fixed the problem.
I've read about umask, but not sure if that applies here or not, because I'm not creating the file but moving it.
I have four users in my red hat linux 9. I want that all these four users should add in a group i.e "Marketing". please guide me that using terminal which command may i write so that the users should added in the group.I does't want to use GUI interface to do it.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm using nfs to mount the folder /mirror from a server onto a node.
This works, except on the node the user and group are displayed as "4294967294".
On the server: ls -al ./ displays
-rw-r--r-- 1 cu cu 0 2011-07-11 15:08 test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 cu cu 0 2011-07-11 15:08 test2
whereas on the node
-rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 2011-07-11 15:08 test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 2011-07-11 15:08 test2
I have usermod and groupmod the username cu to have the same numbers on the node.
On the server: id displays
uid=1021(cu) gid=1007(cu) groups=1007(cu),109(admin)
on the node
uid=1021(cu) gid=1007(cu) groups=1007(cu)
I'm stumpeed as to what the problem could be.
I should perhaps add that the home directory is /mirror/cu (so that the users share the same account when mounted). Not sure if thats relevent though...
My /etc/exports file (on the server) looks like this
/mirror *(rw,sync)
and I do the mount (on the node) with
sudo mount server:/mirror /mirror
how to delete a user from a group? i am new to this group started linux admin course.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am doing rhce course but i am very confused to answer these user and group permissions.the questions are like this...the owner of the /data must be user tom.primary group of /data must be the group sysadmins.the members of the group test must be able to write and create files in the /data.the members of the group web have no access to these directory.the user jack not belong to any of these gropus must have to edit files created in /data.the user tim can only list the contents.
the questions are always like these..i am okay with sgid and sticky bit.but i dnt know where to set default acl and other permissions.
im trying to implements mercurial repositories using ssh access.The problem is that if a login via ssh with the user "userA" all file upload vi that user are created with the owner: userA:userA and i need to use the group of the parent directory... is that posible ?For example:
repos ( root:repo)
-> project1 ( root:repoPrj1 )
-> file1 ( userA:usearA ) -> here i want userA:repoPrj1
If user1's main group is genetics and one wants to add him/her to group biochem and to assign biochem as his/her secondary group will the following suffice ?
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$ sudo usermod -G biochem user1
I would like for user1 to have genetics as the main group but also belong to biochem. When user1 creates a file, as he/she belongs to main group genetics, I assume the file will be owned by user1 and group owner will be genetics. Ideally files created by user1 should be accessible to users in group genetics(when permissions are tweaked) but not by individuals in group biochem. However, any files with group owner biochem should be accessible to user1 as he/she does belong to biochem as a secondary group. Would having user1 main group genetics, secondary group biochem fulfil this criteria ?
Does anyone know how to change the primary group on a user without changing the password? I've tried updating the /etc/passwd and running usermod -g group userBoth of those does change the group but somehow it messes up the password so the user cannot get in with the same password.
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excluding the owner & group permissions.
I'm beginning to deal with more than one user on my system (it's a VPS serving some sites) and I need to make sure I understand how group permissions work. I have an account named "admin" .. it's basically the primary account that is used for serving most of the sites that I control myself. Now, I added a second account named "Ville" as one of my users wants to be able to administer that site. So, I can do this the easy way and just chown their domains folder under the ville user, they have permission to do whatever they need be and so forth. However, let's say I want to also give the admin user access to the files (modifying and all) .. how can I put both users into the same group and give them both permission?
I've tried doing:
sudo usermod -a -G admin ville
To add the ville into the admin group, but ville still cannot edit files by admin. Permissions for the primary directory for the ville user are read/write for both owner and group, and the current group for the files is admin:admin ..
But ville still can't write into the directory. So, what should I be doing here to get this right and secure at the same time?
I Want to be able to let my girlfriend view my pictures folder while at the same time keeping my sister out. So I created a group "JessAndI" and made myself and her apart of that group. I changed the group of the directory recursively to "JessAndI" and gave the permissions to 770. She still isn't able to access or even view the directory unless i change the permissions to allow others whether it be 774 or 777. Am i doing something wrong? I've checked and double checked to make sure she is part of the group and the group is the group on the directory and all the sub-directories and files.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedOnce you add a user(s) to be an administrator on the group you've created using gpasswd command (for example, i've added joe (username) as administrator for payroll (groupname) group using gpasswd); is there any way for me to view the list of users that I've assigned as administrators for a particular group? if so, what is the command line that i need to run?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAfter I edit /etc/group and I add a user to groups it didn't belong to, the user will not be able to use it's newly acquired privileges unless it starts a new session. Is there a command to refresh user/group properties in an ongoing session?
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View 3 Replies View Relatedis it possible to limit the size of a specific folder independent of user or group? I want to restrict /var/log to a total size of 1GB. I don't think that the common approach to create a 1GB partition is the right way since it is possible that I want increase or decrease the limit in the near future.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have created vsftp server with grop of users and they can access only to /home/ftp-folder file which i made for them..nw if i apply read rite privilages to this folder then these previlages get by users in the group obvious...bt wot i want z if i creat a folder in /home directory i.e /home/test and i want the particular user in the group can have 777 access and other users in the grop coud nt access that folder..
how to do it...
I'm trying to do something like thisi created a group called www and made this group the owner of the directory/var/www/htmlso i can read and write to it.of course I've add my self to this group, but it seems i can't read and write.the syntax i used was something like chown :www /var/www/html.didn't workonly when i used chown samurai:www /var/www/html i could finally could create new file.the reason i don't want to specify the user name is because I'm thinking of a scenario when i need to give permission to a large group of ppl and don't want to do it user by user.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've a problem on one of my servers with file permissions. Quite simply , when I run chmod 777 -R against a folder , it seems to be inconsistent on making that particular folders permissions trickle down to the folders beneath. Some folders inherit its permissions , some don't. For example...
/projects
Contains
/Jan /Feb /Mar /April
They all in turn contain folders marked /1 , /2 , /3 , up to /10, these folders all contain more folders , running to a depth of 6.
However , depending on what folder our users save their files into , some are saved with rwxrwxr-- , some get saved with rwxrwxrx. Forgive my lack of understanding but if I run the above command against the top level folder will this not make every folder and file below it inherit its permissions of 777 ?? Or is there something else that I need to do?
This netbook only has a user with non-administrative privs on it and root user but I do not have root's password.Is there a way that I can create a new administrative user of change the current user's group so that it can do sudo commands or have more privs?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to allow a group/user to execute a command, where one of the parameters of the command is a group as well? example that does not work as intended:
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Cmnd_alias SU=/bin/su -l %group1 This example works sortof, it treats the "%group1" literally. I know I can list out the "/bin/su -l <eachuser>", but as you can imagine that is impractical. In this example, I want people in group2(not shown for brevity sake) to be able to su to someone in group1
I have setgid permission on my home directory (/home/XXXX) the permission look like below.
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drwxrws--- 2 toshi jadu 4096 Apr 26 16:54 getset
If I create new directory in this getset folder the permission of getset folder could not inherit.
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#cd getset
#mkdir test2
#ls |grep test2
drwxr-s--- 2 toshi jadu 4096 Apr 26 16:56 test2
As I know the setgid utility allow to inherit the permission from parent directory to child directory.
How can I group files and create archives accordingly? I have 10,000 files in a folder (no sub-folders) and I want to create 10 zip or tar.gz archives. This means every archive has 1,000 files. How can I do this in Linux?
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