General :: Change Permissions And Ownership For NTFS Mounts?
Apr 19, 2011
I finally replaced my Windows with Linux.. However, I need to run applications and modify files that are on NTFS mounts. I am unable to change ownership, permissions, and groups on these files so I may modify them without having to copy. I have several times attempted to chmod, chgrp, chown, etc.. while logged-in as root user; however it is to no avail. The owner and permissions are still geared towards root. can I change ownership and permissions on NTFS files so I can modify them without having to convert/copy them over to ext4 or different file system?- Matbtw: I am using OpenSuse 11.4 and running Windows apps with VirtualBox (with Vista installation image). I still have Win7 on my computer (non-emulated) and I would like to keep some files on those NTFS partitions so when I occasionally need to boot into Win7 I can modify those files because Windows blows and doesn't support Linux.
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Aug 9, 2009
My system (CentOs5.3) became erratic after i tried to change wholesale the ownership of the /FS. is it possible to change ownership or rwx permissions of files in linux? what is the safeguard available to preserve the consistency of the program files in linux against such an attempt by su?
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Jan 18, 2010
After burning files to DVD+RW, the owner is changed to root, and all permissions are read only. I want to periodically open these files, update them, and save to the DVD again, but I no longer have permission and cannot change the permissions since I am no longer the owner. I tried sudo commands, but get responses "Read only file system". I have erased and reformatted the DVD and started over but get the same results.
I have Ubuntu 9.04, and have tried Brasero and Nautilus and get the same problem. Am I using the wrong kind of DVD/CD?
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Aug 30, 2010
I have been VERY lucky and managed to restore from a formatted ext3 /home/ partition. I used testdisk to reset the original partition which had had nothing done to it since formatting(!). However some of the file permissions are a altered and I cannot change them. I have tried "su chmod" and even temporarily enabled the root account itself and tried to alter the ownership/permissions from root 'proper' without it helping.
Here is an example of the output of ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 martyn martyn 4096 (date) (time) sponsors
?-----S--T 63231 92820383 44090688 4286824785 (date) (time) order.xls
The first line looks like a normally formed output and indeed is readable. The second line looks corrupted and I don't have a clue how I can reclaim this - or even if it is possible. Should I count my blessings most of my files are intact and leave those be?
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Jan 16, 2010
I caught my two oldest boys at various times playing games instead of doing their school work.I said enough is enough. I will lock them out of the games. I don't think you need to be in the games group to play games
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May 25, 2011
process of migrating my server to Ubuntu Server 11.04 after my Server 2003 installation suffered a HDD failure. All my data is on an NTFS drive (not ideal but not much I can do about that). I can currently only read the disk as a user. root has ownership of everything on the disk. Whenever I try and change ownership of a file it doesn't bring up any errors but when running ls -l it shows that nothing has actually changed.
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Apr 10, 2011
any way to change file permissions of NTFS drives? All my C programming files resides in a NTFS drive and I need to set execute permision on them in order to run. I tired chmod -Rv 777 /media/Programming. and also tired chmod 775 *.* after entering the folder in which all my files resides. but both these commands doesn't seem to have any effect on the files. I know NTFS doesn't use Unix file system and chmod command goes in vain.
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Mar 2, 2011
Here is my fstab's content:
/dev/sda7/media/entfsdefaults00
/dev/sda8/media/fntfs-3g silent,umask=00000
[root@localhost code]# ll 2
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Mar 2 20:19 2
[code]....
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Sep 15, 2010
Is it possible to let users create the directory or files but only user "yat" can delete them.suppose other users are geller ross joe from group FH , who have privileges. whenever these users create file or dir , they should not able delete it.BottomLine: Group users should create file but should not be able to delete them.By the way using sgid bit didnt help .
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Jun 4, 2011
I use Linux but have a computer with windows I use for gaming. It died and put the hard drive into another computer and used knoppix to recover my files. I looked at the ownership of the windows files and the owner is knoppix. Now I am concerned that ownership will not work on my new Windows computer (when I finish building it, that is). Since I don't get into Windows much I have no idea what those permissions should be.
If I copy them with owner knoppix can I even access them in Windows to change the ownership to whatever Windows will accept? If I change the ownership before putting them on a CD with knoppix, can I write the CD? I will have to use the hard drive on the new windows box so will not have access to the files later (unless I also copy them to my Linux computer for safekeeping). At least I know the ownership changes to make with Linux.
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Jan 24, 2011
I 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.
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Feb 9, 2011
this is my first post and I am not sure if this belongs here or in hardware.Now for the main post!
setup:
Dell Demension 4400
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz, 1 cores
[code]...
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Nov 11, 2010
I'm a new openSUSE user. I want to make an account for my cousin, but we want our NTFS folders (from the dual WIndows XP install) inaccessible to each other. Problem is that, if I've read well in other searches, permissions can't be applied to NTFS (only the power to write, not only read, the whole partition). I know this can be done in Ubuntu, so I don't find a reason not to be able to do it, and I think my fault is that I'm using KDE (which I like more now, by the way) instead of GNOME.
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Jul 2, 2010
Installed Sidux over LennySidux didn't want to take my usual username, because a folder with that name existed in my home directory.So, I just mounted the home partition and changed the name of my home directory from shay to shay1.Don't know what that did or didn't do permission wise to the files in my old home directory, but I've got a few unowned files floating around my home directory anyway that have been dragged in from old harddrives and such.
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Jun 17, 2011
Why would I need to be root to change the ownership of a file? Example: I'm logged in as dwadmin and I've created a file:
-rw-rw---- 1 dwadmin dgw 0 Jun 17 07:46 testing.txt
I want to change the ownership to another user, but am getting the following error: chown 511 testing.txt chown: changing ownership of `testing.txt': Operation not permitted
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Jun 24, 2011
I've already done the following commands
Code:
su
chown theif519 /home/theif519
chmod 775 /home/theif519
exit
#usermod -d /home/theif519 login
I've logged out and logged back in, and I was successful in making it the default directory it logs in to. Still, afterwards I noticed that that when I use the list all commands "ls -l" it shows that root owns it and it also shows that I do not, by default, have read write execute over it, only read execute. I'm using Slackware 13.37* in a Virtual Machine* Another thing, I don't think I added any rights to my user, how do I give it more rights as well? Like, wheel and sudo and all of that stuff. Also, this was the website I was using *Although it didn't help much, the comments sure did [URL].
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Oct 16, 2010
I am a Linux Noob of the major kind.I have an MP3 player that is owned by root. I have a SANDISK it in also. I can copy files to the player despite it being owned by root but I can't copy them to the SANDISK which is also owned by root. So what is suppose to be after the colon?How do I determine what that is if it is a directory?How do I change to root to change ownership if that is what I need to do?Is there an application that I can use to change ownership easy and what user do I have to be to do that.
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Oct 4, 2010
(Ubuntu 10.04) I would like to change to change the ownership of one of my storage partitions from root to dad - I am currently reading through as much Ubuntu documentation as I can but the process is slow. If I gksudo nautilus and select the drive, right click/properties/Permissions the owner is set to root. If I try to change the group ownership from root to dad it looks like it momentarily does it but it stays at root.
using Pysdm as a gui for fstab - but so far I have only found out how to allow other users to mount the volume not own it. My fstab entry for this volume reads as /dev/sdb6 /media/backuphd2 ntfs-3g group=dad,users,user,owner 0 0 - it looks to me that in terms of ownership, root = 0 0 Can I find out what the ownership of dad is in terms of numbers (e.g. owner 0 1 or owner 1 1) and then change the fstab entry?
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Jan 1, 2011
I installed Ubuntu from the alternate cd a few days ago to save space and resources on a very old laptop. (install command line, then add what I wanted) But I have struck an interesting problem with file permissions. Various programs like synaptic, leafpad, pcman, Banshee, all require I enter the root password to execute them (or sudo command from terminal). I want to change synaptic from root ownership to sudo and leafpad etc to execute without using the sudo command in terminal. I could get comments on the commands before I execute them in terminal and if I am introducing a security problem, as I am still learning bash. $ sudo chown sudo:sudo synaptic
I would still be asked for my sudo password before being able to open synaptic? As in standard Ubuntu instead of root password.$ sudo chmod 777 leafpad pcman Banshee All users could open these programs from the menu? I have my admin account and a general account which I use for everyday things like surfing the net and listening to music.
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Jan 16, 2010
just trying to learn linux here and have some comfusing moments.it is my understanding that if you own directories and files you maychange the group, ownership, and permissions on all of these as you desire.however, in my case I cannot make any changes in my setup on group, ownershipor permissions on any of my files or directories.get error message <operation not permitted>. I know as root you ar supposed tobe able to do anything you desire, however in my case I can go in as root andtry the same commands with the same results. it is as if I am locked out ofsystem as far as any changes are concerned.on my jump drive I have:
total 83832
drwxr-xr-x 26 jevans root 16384 1969-12-31 19:00 .
drwxrwxr-x 9 jevans jevans 4096 2010-01-15 12:51 ..
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Oct 14, 2009
I am writing a script that is checking the ownership and permissions of a directory. If the directory in question does not have the correct ownership and permissions, the script will run the appropriate commands to give it the correct settings. The if...then...else syntax. The idea here is the following:
Code:
If <directory> no eq = <ownership root:root> && <permissions 755>
then chown root:root <directory> && chmod 755 <directory>
else exit
fi
What would the correct syntax be for the If line of the loop in question?
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Aug 1, 2010
I run the servers hosting an intranet, a couple of services and an external websites for my club at university. I'd like to back up all the config files to some version control system to keep track of changes, in case one of my colleagues breaks something. The idea is to keep snapshots and then just roll back the required file in case something happens.
Now to the main issue: How does a version control system handle file permissions and ownership? Does it keep them? Does it set the permissions of the user who committed the last change? These are important questions as we have multiple daemons with different users...
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Feb 12, 2011
Being new to Linux, i've just about got used to the Debian setup procedure now, but had a quick question on the default ownership of files and folders. On my default Debian installation, almost all the folders and files are owned by root:root. Is this the correct advised configuration or should the folders and files be owned by a user without root permissions - eg user:user?
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Jul 4, 2011
I'm pretty new to Linux. Though I've used it for a little bit, I barely know any shell commands. I recently migrated from Mint to Fedora. Installation went fine and I thought I was doing great until I tried to copy something onto one of my ntfs partitions (I got them automounted through changing fstab). Now I can't change the permissions with sudo chmod... it says I can, but nothing changes. And, while the folders are listed as allowing rw for the user group I set up, I can't actually change anything. I'm guessing I've done something wrong with my fstab file.
My fstab file is:
Code:
I should probably note that I'm using NVIDIA fake RAID 0, which is why my device locations are all /dev/mapper/nvidia_fcficeibp#
The command I have tried to change permissions is:
Code:
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Aug 11, 2010
How do I change folder permissions without changing the permissions of the files within the folder?
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Oct 9, 2010
I have my hard drive arranged with a single large ntfs data partition and a number of smaller partitions for /home etc. Here's the line in fstab:
Code:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103SJ_S246J9FZ806954-part2 /home/shmuck/data ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
But the ownership for that directory is root and I can't change it for some reason, using this line:
Code:
sudo chown -R shmuck /home/shmuck/data
It just doesn't do anything.
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Feb 19, 2010
I've tried using chown to change the owner on one of my folders - but to no luck? This is what I run on the terminal - and there's no output. And when i view the permissions of the folder it's still set to root?[URL]
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Jun 30, 2010
how to change the ownership of a folder and everything within it through the Terminal. chown, in this case, isn't going to work.
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Jul 7, 2010
I need to install a script into my Gimp folder which is owned by root. I tried "chown my name usr/ share/ gimp2.0/scripts" in terminal, but it tells me folder does not exist. I know I'm missing something, but I haven't done this in a while, so I'm not sure what it is.
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Jul 4, 2010
I know I asked this question before, but I was running CentOS and I used "chuser" and that worked just fine, but for some reason in Fedora it doesn't exist. Is there another command that works in Fedora?I'm tring to change all files, and folders in my "www" folder to "apache:apache"
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