Ubuntu :: Editing Permissions Not Allowed Because Not The Owner?
Jul 25, 2011
I am just wondering why this is happening. I just tried to use a tutorial to customize my GUI and give myself a custom launcher for Libre Office, and when I tried to copy the edited .desktop file back into my "/adam/usr/shared/applications" folder, it told me I didn't have permission to do this. I tried to edit the folder permissions and it told me that I was not able to because I am not the owner. Is there any way to fix this or do I have to re-install Ubuntu?
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Jul 27, 2010
I have installed apache2, mysql, php .. they work great! but I can move, change, paste or anything in the folder sites_available (the folder for localhost) I am really confused right now! because I have used this with xampp in XP and it worked perfectly but I cant make it work in ubuntu! I cant test my php sites!
I am really noob about configuring linux! I think I don't have permission to do anything in that folder because when I try to paste my site there it show a error saying that I am not the owner! When I installed ubuntu first I created a username: "SHPETIM" and this username is administrator and has root permissions but sometimes there are somethings that I cant do!
Sometimes even in Terminal when I type in my password (the only password that I created when I installed ubuntu) it says FAILURE! I dont know what other password it may have that I don't know! I think there is a user with username ROOT and it has another password but since I am noob I dont understand this and I dont know how it works!
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Oct 8, 2010
I have a disk that I access from several locations. I require that all the files created always have the same owner, at least group wise. I have different users (that are in that group) that need to be able to read/write all these files. I have these users access the files over samba, and sometimes locally on the server. I know that you can do something with a thing called sticky group or whatever, that files created in a dir with that flag will get the same group, but it has not worked consistently so far. It must also work for directories created by these users.The permissions should be 770 (chmod).Is there a way to set this up, that all files created always have the same group? Right now I am running a cron job every hour or so, to chmod and chown all the files to the right group, but this is far from elegant of course
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Oct 28, 2010
Did a fresh install of Maverick, all is well but if I insert a video DVD, it won't play. But if I open Movie Player, etc. as root, I can play the individual chapters - that is I need to manually choose which chapter to play, it won't start at the beginning and play to the end. Have installed libdvdcss3, restricted extras, etc. I am a member of the "video" group.Data & music CD's work fine in the drive; data DVD's are fine also. Just no DVD playing with me as the user; nor does the DVD appear in my Places menu, etc
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Nov 24, 2010
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
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Apr 9, 2010
A colleague of mine has a Linux box (running Debian I believe) with an SVN repository on it. The repository directory and files 'owner' is my colleauge. We are both members of a group called 'users'. He manages several projects both Linux and Windows apps, while I have one Windows app. For the Windows apps, we both use TortoiseSVN via an SSH link to commit/update. Performing the command 'ls -l' shows the repository files and folders on the Linux box to have the following permissions:
-rwxrwx--- john users
However, when my colleauge commits to the repository, the permissions change to:
-rwxrwx--- john john
This then means I get 'Permission denied' when trying to access the repository myself as it appears that the group permissions have been overwritten with only 'owner' permissions. To fix this, a 'chown -R' command is applied to the files/folders to set the permissions back to owner/group, but each time he writes to the repository, the issue repeats.
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Jul 17, 2011
In my /var/www directory, I have everything set up with:
user: www-data
group: developers
directories: chmod 570
files: chmod 460
Everything seems fine. Users from the developers group can edit files and all, but now we began using the Git repository, and whenever a user edits a file (ie. Joe who is a developer,) file permissions get screwed again. Now they're:
user: Joe
group: Joe
directories: chmod 755
files: chmod 644
How can I fix this so permissions remain the same?
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Feb 8, 2010
When I use ls -al to show files downloaded from internet,
-rw-rw-r-- 1 427 6011 7544 Jul 20 2006 INSTALL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 427 6011 4229 Dec 9 15:36 Makefile.am
-rw-rw-r-- 1 427 6011 27893 Dec 10 17:47 Makefile.in
I can see the owner and group ids are shown because there are no corresponding entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively. I don't know much about linux and dare not to edit these files, I wonder if somebody already knows whether linux would map the owner id of files coming from other computers to the account name in /etc/passwd and display them when necessary (for example, when using ls -al)?
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Jul 24, 2011
On my dual-boot system, 11.4 and win7, Iped out the Doc and DL folders in my home directory and replaced 'em with links to the ones on the windows side. It works great except for one thing: When I open Dolphin in superuser mode and change the permissions to make myself the owner of those folders, the change doesn't take. Is there a special trick to it?GEFPS: I plan to use openSUSE as my main OS, but it's easier to keep my data on the NTFS partition, because Linux speaksindows better than than Windows speaks Linux. Besides, that's where my data already lives
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Apr 21, 2009
How can I make a virtual host (right now I just use NameVirtualHost *:80) that will load the same page for every domain that matches imap.domain.com, smtp.domain.com, or pop3.domain.com?
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May 28, 2010
While reading some papers on securing apache with selinux, I have tried to bind httpd to port 3000 expecting to be blocked by the selinux, since port tcp 3000 isn't on the http_port_t list. However I was able to start the service...
I'm preety sure selinux is enforcing. Also, if I bind httpd to tcp 81 selinux denies the start of the service, as expected!Did I miss something? Why is httpd allowed to start binded to a port that's not explicitly allowed?
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Jun 16, 2010
How to enable Root login...i cant copy or move something on the HDD...I have administrator rights and password for root but i cant change permissions for the HDD without login on root and root login are not allowed .
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Jun 6, 2010
I have an old laptop that I installed EasyPeasy Lucid on. I have never used Grub2 as my other Ubuntu installs still use Grub Legacy. I have studied all the tutorials which instruct that the grub.cfg file should not be edited directly.This old laptop has one of the dreaded Intel graphics chips for which the kernel automatically loads the i915 module. Of course (like a multitude of others with Intel graphics and Lucid) I booted into a black screen but knew the workaround was to enable mode setting through grubI used the
Code:
i915.modeset=1
and added it to /etc/default/grub line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, just after "quite splash", just
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Jul 5, 2010
I have to paste the tar.gz files in /usr/local/src folder but it does not permit me to do that i tried changing the permissions but it says you are not an owner what should i do else than uninstalling ubuntu
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May 30, 2010
Change Owner to Everyone, All Users, or *
How do I change the owner of a folder to Everyone?
In Windows, I can just right click folder > Properties > Security > Edit... > Add... > Advanced... > Find Now > Select "Everyone" > OK > OK > Set Everyone permissions > OK > OK. ^ See, so easy!
Every time I login or restart, I have to launch these commands:
Code:
I need to access the /var/spool/cups/ spool folder, but having to re-do that is so annoying.
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Feb 14, 2011
In Windows I used WinSCP to do all of my server work. It was easy and intuitive to use. In Ubuntu, I've been recommended to use "sftp://" for the location. I can change folder permission settings this way, but it doesn't allow me to change the owner and group, and doesn't allow to change the file permissions (folder permissions are ok though).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? How do I go about doing this? I'm much more comfortable doing it via GUI rather than terminal.
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Apr 9, 2011
I cannot write files to an ext4 partition I created unless using gksu nautilus, so I tried Code: sudo chown my_user /dev/sda3 but the owner is still reported in the properties to be root. /dev/sda3 is the path I see in gparted.
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Oct 16, 2010
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?
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May 31, 2011
Problem: permissions for rsync and BackinTime. Setup: Ubuntu 11.04, Two internal HD, #1=main, single boot, #2=backup drive. Question: How do I set up my 2nd HD with correct permissions? Background: I had previously a dual boot XP+10.04 with a 2nd HD formatted as NTFS. With this I was able to use my rsync and backintime to my 2nd HD with no issue. My new set up is EXT4 on both HD.
(I even tried to reformat my 2nd HD as NTFS, but that didnt fix the issue) I followed [URL] to mount the 2nd HD and get permissions. But now when I run backintime i get this error: [E] Error: rsync: opendir "/home/myhome/.ssh" failed: Permission denied (13) I did my requisite reading for a newbie, and am stuck. I ran backintime as root, and it backed up ok. How do I run my user version of backintime? (i.e. How do I fix the permission issue?)
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Jul 2, 2010
I have all my music/photos etc. on a different partition to my Ubuntu and Windows partitions.
However, I can't make any changes like deleting files/renaming etc. because I'm not the partition's 'owner' or i'm not in root.
change the ownership of the partition so I can change files from Ubuntu.
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Jul 16, 2010
Just intalled Ubuntu 10.4 but one of my partitions /media/extra is owned by root, i would like to chance the owner to my user. I've tried sudo chown -Rf username:usergroup /media/extra but i stil have no permissions.
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May 29, 2011
When I installed Ubuntu, I was asked to enter a user name and password. I chose one that would be a sort of "administrator alias" and gave it a strong password. This is my "su" name and password. That works fine for most things, such as installing software, etc.. Every so often, however, something comes up that can only be accessed by "root" and that is not me, even logged in with my "administrator alias" and password. This happened when I inserted a USB flash drive and tried to copy some files to it that I wished to transfer from my desktop my laptop. The only way I could do this was to format the flash drive. and then add my files to it.
This morning I inserted the flash drive and tried to add another file to it, using "copy" and "paste". Again I got "permission denied" and the owner of the flash drive, seen as "usb0", was again "root", and I could not change its permissions, because I am not "root". It also says the device is not listed in etc/fstab. I have read the Ubuntu paper on mounting USB drives, but I'm not sure that applies here. The drive seems to be mounted, but with the wrong owner.
This problem has also occurred with some software when I tried installing it. I usually give up and don't install it. This flash drive problem, however, is driving me crazy. I need to transfer those files. Is there something I'm missing? Despite installing and upgrading Ubuntu on 2 machines, I'm still pretty much a newbie, and if it involves using the terminal, I need step-by-step instructions,
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Mar 16, 2010
Is it possible to reset apache 2 permissions to default permissions I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 command line server, would webmin give me this access ?
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Mar 23, 2010
I use 9.10 desktop with a root user and my own user (timmo), I did not create anything else. Now I check a directory (mysql databases) with ls -l and I see mysql not only as a group but also as owner. How can mysql, not being a user on my system, be an owner? In users and groups I see that all of the many groups only have two members, root and timmo. I know that mysql users and linux users are different animals but ls -l is definitely a linux command.
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Oct 11, 2010
When I create folders in a PHP script fom my website, the folder is created but has owner "33". My ftp user have an other "Owner ID" than this. So I can't delete or edit the files that is created. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a VPS server.
ISPconfig3
proftpd
I think I have LAMP (it was installed with a script from my hosting company).Also the safe_mode is off.
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Feb 4, 2011
I use a mounted NTFS filesystem as my main data storage drive. I then symlink all my Windows folders (Documents, Pictures, etc.) into my Ubuntu home folder. Works great, because it means I can share files between Windows and Ubuntu hassle-free. However, any file created on or saved to the NTFS partition automatically has its owner set as "root". Is it possible to set the default owner to me (aaron)? Or does it have to be root on NTFS?
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Apr 26, 2011
The --cmd-owner option was removed in kernel 2.6.14 because was broken with SMP. Is any way to filtering by process name?
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Aug 16, 2011
I can't figure out how to make files have a different default owner:group.. Example:I need the users of my group called gpib, to create new files with: username:gpib, instead of the default: username:username
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Mar 15, 2010
I have a problem with my external hdd, I mounted it manually and in the mount table it says ive got rw permissions. But when i try to change permissions it says:
chmod: changing permissions of `whatever': read-only filesystem.
This is my mount table:
[root@localhost ExtHDD]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
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Jul 21, 2010
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I have a NIS user on my company, but after install opsnSUSE 11.2 on my workstation the owner and group of all of my file are 4294967294
Code:
[vampird@lyra]:~$ l | head
total 2277
drwx---r-x 30 4294967294 4294967294 2560 2010-07-21 13:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 69 4294967294 4294967294 1536 2010-07-16 16:01 ../
- -rw------- 1 4294967294 4294967294 129 2010-07-21 11:34 .bash_history
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 4294967294 4294967294 2323 2010-05-06 01:56 .bashrc*
drwxr-xr-x 3 4294967294 4294967294 512 2010-07-21 10:56 .cache/
drwx------ 9 4294967294 4294967294 1024 2010-07-21 11:11 .claws-mail/
drwxr-xr-x 5 4294967294 4294967294 512 2010-07-21 11:33 .config/
drwx------ 3 4294967294 4294967294 512 2010-07-21 10:55 .dbus/
drwxr-xr-x 2 4294967294 4294967294 512 2010-07-21 11:25 Desktop/
[vampird@lyra]:~$
On the server I can see the owner as vampird and the correct group,
VampirD
Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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