General :: User Write In A Subfolder When Can't Access Parent?
Jul 13, 2010
I was wondering, i have a webfolder and have permissions set to 770 with group being www-data. I would like to give access to one folder to a friend so he can edit images, css, etc. I made that folder 770 with group being site_name with www-data and him being in the group. So far so good it sounds like. However when i use the full path to the directory linux says it doesnt exist.
Is there a way i can make it so he doesnt have r/w file on files inside the parent directories and still access the directory i want to give him?
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Aug 10, 2010
I need to give a user write access to /var/www and its subdirectories. The current directory permissions are as follows:rwx r-x r-x root root
I added the user to the root group but that didn't seem to help.I read I could chmod -R to change the access to write for the www directory and subdirectories but I don't want to change things and mess up the website. How can I give the user access to write to the www directory and subdirectories without messing anything up? Would changing the www directory group owner to his group cause an issue anywhere?
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Feb 17, 2010
I want to write a shell script which will simultaneously collect OS user information and write in an individual text files.Can anyone tell me the syntax of the script.N.B. The user name will be mentioned in an array within the shell script.
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Jan 18, 2010
I'm setting up Ubuntu Karmic on my sister's old computer for my nephew, he's quite young so my sister asked to install some content filtering. I'll first setup an OpenDNS account and I've installed and managed to get dansguardian and squid working on a virtual machine to try it out. so far it's working pretty well, but I need to secure it form the inside out.
I was thinking of blocking specific outbound ports so he could not bypass the proxy. because by default the firefox configuration can be easily changed. so I have a couple of questions.
1. is it possible to block outgoing ports on Ubuntu?
2. is that the best method?
3. is there anything else I should be aware of to prevent subversion?
lastly, this question is probably unrelated to this board but I've set up a cron job to update a dynamic ip with OpenDNS, the problem is that the password is in clear text in the user's crontab, can I play with permissions? is it possible to run the job under a root account and deny read/write access to a normal user?
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Feb 25, 2010
I've looked everywhere but I can't find where to change the default box for incoming mail, or am I on the wrong track. It's a nuisance having to change folders and I can't configure wastebin to empty on exit.And I can't get kmail to import from evolution. Do I have to go to the evolution storage and do it manually, and if so, how do I do that?
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May 3, 2011
I keep getting a segfault in compiz. I've tried everything! This is from a fresh install without and accelerated drivers (I have ATI)
Quote:
Code:
**Switching to Compiz window management**
/usr/local/bin/compiz-indicator:99: GtkWarning: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
menu.append(kill)
/usr/local/bin/compiz-indicator:100: GtkWarning: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
menu.append(start)
[code]....
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Mar 8, 2010
I'm developing an application in which one user must run java software that I'm compiling as another user. I wanted to give user A permission to see the bin direcory of my workspace, which is in the home directory of user B. I was wondering how can this be done? I gave the bin direcotry full read/execute premissions, but since it's in my home directory user A can't navigate to it.
I know there are a few ways I could get around the problem but they arn't very elegant. I was wondering if there is a simple method for giving a user access to a specific directory without giving access to all the parent directories. I tried symbolic link but user A still can't access it, and a hard link to a directory isn't allowed in Linux. I don't feel like making a hard link to every single file in the bin directory, and I'm not sure that would work anyways, since every recompile overwrites them.
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Jul 29, 2011
I create a bash script and I assign a folder variable like:
#!/bin/bash
....
Myvariable_FOLDER_PATH=/PATH/TO/SPECIFIC/SUBFOLDER
is there any way to make another variable with just the specific SUBFOLDER
(?some command?)----> will make My_variable_subfolder = SUBFOLDER
so if I do
echo $Myvariable_FOLDER_PATH
i get: /PATH/TO/SPECIFIC/SUBFOLDER
and echo $My_variable_subfolder
i get: /SUBFOLDER
The tree and path names will change so I jjust want the last subfolder that I will access to access its files.
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Mar 3, 2010
On my laptop for testing, I simply chown each subdir of /var/www to my myuser:www-data. But, now that I am setting up a public facing server, I'm wondering if this is the proper way to do so? If not, what is the best way to allow a non-root account to write to /var/www.
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Mar 21, 2011
why I cannot upload local files to subfolder in my home folder on FTP server? Say, i wanna upload files to /home/haolh/trial/occ/src/occ, but following error msg were given...
commandput "C:Proj rialoccsrcocc" "occ"
error/home/haolh/trial/occ/src/occ: open for write: permission denied
After google this prob, i've tried commands as below but it still failed
chmod 770 /home/haolh/
chown root:haolh /home/haolh/
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Sep 29, 2010
I want my bash script to run scripts located on a different folder. If it is also located on the same folder with my script, it will go like this:
on my $HOME folder: (this_script.sh, backup.sh, restore.sh, purge.sh)
#!/bin/bash
./backup.sh
./restore.sh
./purge.sh
But what if, on my $HOME folder: (this_script.sh)
$HOME/scripts folder: ( backup.sh,restore.sh, purge.sh )
Below doesn't work...
#!/bin/bash
./$HOME/scripts/backup.sh
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Feb 17, 2010
How do I let user Y write in folder A only when executing script X?
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Sep 30, 2010
I want to write the sequence of operation of a user interactive process (Question asked by the process and answers user entered) in to a log file.
I used tee command, Precess1 | tee -a FileName
This write only the Question asked by the process. Does anybody know how to write the user inputs also to the same file, synchronized?
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May 17, 2010
I'm using Arch right now and i'm having problems syncing my ipod with Amarok (KDE). Everytime I would want to sync a song, it would give me access denied. it is currently mounted at /tmp/ipodbxQtrU and i have tried using chmod with no luck. I was in root when i used "chmod -R user ipodbxQtrU" and it said operation not permitted.
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Nov 23, 2010
how to write a driver to access the hardware ,only in the user space in the linux
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Jul 29, 2011
I want to delete a subfolder ABC in a main Project folder Globe. It occurs in many subfolders. It is very hectic to search and issue an rm -rf ABC command. I need to make a script for that .
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Jul 13, 2011
I have many folders with many subfolders. All I want it to get the folder name and the first subfolder. I tried using ls -R but this give me more than I want it. Let say I have:
dir1/subdir1/sub_1_1/file.a
dir1/subdir1/sub_1_1/file.a2
dir1/subdir1/sub_1_1/file.a3
[code]....
All I want when I execute the command is to show me:
dir1/subdir1
dir1/subdir1
dir1/subdir2
[code]....
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Dec 9, 2010
I am attempting to use the zip command with the '-x' option to exclude a folder e.g. 'zip upload.zip public_html -x public_html/jquery/*'. However, parts of this folder are still being added to the archive. I made a shell script (saved as 'compress.sh' and ran as '. compress.sh') to do the archiving so I could test adding nested wildards for multiple subfolder levels.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
rm -f upload.zip
zip -r upload.zip public_html
-x public_html/jquery
[code]....
Each new line I added here that has the nested wildcards made the archive file size a bit smaller. Adding more /*'s than this didn't affect the file size. Even after all this though, there were still a couple megabytes of files and folders from the 'jquery' directory that were added to the archive.
Here's some examples of files and folders that were created after I unzipped the archive:
public_html/jquery/js/tablesorter/addons/pager/icons [folder]
public_html/jquery/js/tablesorter/addons/pager/.svn/entries [file]
public_html/jquery/js/tablesorter/build/.svn/text-base/js.jar.svn-base [file]
Why is it that despite all the -x lines, the files and folders like these were still being added to the archive? How can I simply recursively exclude the entire public_html/jquery folder from the archive?
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Feb 4, 2011
allow specific user permission to read/write my folder
I have a folder called /TAR/Sketch
I added a new user, named Snoopy, I want to grant this user the ability to add files & directories to this folder which is under the group Sketches and the owner is me.
How can I accomplish this ?
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Aug 14, 2011
I need 2 Linux users to share a folder. Within this folder, users should always be able to create files and sub-folders and write into any sub-folder (whether they own it or not). However, they should only be able to edit the files they actually own.
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Jun 27, 2010
When I log on a root and attempt to issue the command Freshclam to upgrade the virus definitions it attempts or create a new file with a definition name. I get a message stating that the directory isnt writable. The user and group access rights are as follows:
USER = read, write, execute
Group = read, write, execute
All= read, execute.
The only way I can get around this is by applying a 777 which would be read, write and execute for all. Now, I have a group define with several user ids in it including Root.How do I connect the group with the directory/file so I dont have to apply a 777 access right to group users could issue the Freshclam command.
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Apr 2, 2011
I'm trying to backup netbook files to an external optical drive. I can read discs but not write. A while back I tried using K3b but it did not see the external drive. Now it does, but tells me write access is needed and quits. I am in the cdrom group.
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Jul 17, 2011
I managed to setup an encrypted partition that's mounted on boot using dm-crypt/LUKS.
The relevant entry from my /etc/fstab:
/dev/mapper/st_crypt /media/st ext4 defaults 0 2
The partition is mounted at boot, and I can write to it as root just fine, but I have no idea how to make it writable by a normal user (i.e the users group).
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Jun 13, 2011
I would like to know how can I share a folder in samba with no need of user and password with write permission, with no need of using guest user.
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Feb 18, 2011
i want to write shell script that give a number between 1-3444 from user and if user enter out of range number give error e.g number must between
read -p "plz Enter Number " p
while [ $p != [1-9] -o $p != [1-9][0-9] -o $p != [1-3][0-4][0-4][0-4] ]
do
read -p "plz Enter Valid Number" p
done
but this have an error in while statement ! two many argument
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Jul 8, 2010
I own a particular file on a Linux system. I would like to give 2 groups (accounting, shipping) read access and only read access, and 3 users(Mike, Raj and Wally) write access and only write access. How can I accomplish this?
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Aug 24, 2010
I'm having this problem wherein the ppp program is altering the /etc/resolv.conf file when connecting.This, despite me having set file permissions to read-only. What could be the problem here?
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Nov 28, 2010
I am new to writing shell scripts. So, please bare with me. I am currently trying to write a shell script which will read the directory path as input from user and will traverse the Dir tree to find all available audio and video files. I have tried to write as much as I could but I don't know where I am making mistake as I get some files to be audio file which are actully tar balls. On the second note there are some files which video but script shows them to be audio. And, some video files are completely skipped. I am giving the shell script below so that you can see. I am using two external files as source which I am attaching.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Let's load the extensions that we want to search for
vdExt=$(cat vdExtList)
adExt=$(cat adExtList)
[code]....
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Oct 6, 2010
I want to simply mount an ext4 file-system onto a normal mount point in Ubuntu (/media/whereever), as read-writable for the current logged-in user, i.e. me.
I don't want to add anything into /etc/fstab, I just want to do it now, manually. I need super-user privileges to mount a device, but then only root can read-write that mount. I've tried various of the mount options, added it into fstab, but with no luck.
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Feb 27, 2010
I need to write a script to report useful information on disk utilization for each user's home directory.For each directory I need to show: 1. the long listing of that directory entry (but not the files in the directory), so that I can see the rights and owners of the directory.2. The amount of disk used by that directory, in human-readable format, including subdirectories. I need to have two lines for each user one after the other. For example:
/home/user1 directory info
/home/user1 disk usage
/home/user2 directory info
/home/user2 disk usage
The script will assume that all users, except user root, have their home directories in the /home directory (no need to do anything with the /etc/passwd file). And if the administrator adds or removes users, the script should still work correctly (so the script shows the information for all current users).
Here's what I do know. The command "ls -ld /home/user's_name" will give me the info I need for #1. And the command "du -hs" will give me the info I need for #2. What I don't know is how to grab each individual directory in order to apply the above commands to each of them in order. ???
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