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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I used to use the root account for everything for more than a year then I moved to a user account for security reasons but almost all files had root as owner so I could not go 5 minutes without having to change to root and then change the owner of a file to my username to make it usable. I got fed up with this so I just changed the owner of every file on the system to my username instead of root.
command chown -R myusername * in the base directory /
Everything was fine until I restarted and the login screen became non functional and I got 2 error messages related to xsession and gnome errors. I think this is because the login screen might have its own user account and it cant access the files for the login process because it is owned by myusername. So my question is what is the user-name of the login account and what folders/files need to have their owner changed so the login process can work? I'm on 10.04 lucid.
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?
View 4 Replies View RelatedChange 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:
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I need to access the /var/spool/cups/ spool folder, but having to re-do that is so annoying.
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.
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.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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.
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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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!
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,
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?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen 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.
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
View 2 Replies View RelatedI 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?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe --cmd-owner option was removed in kernel 2.6.14 because was broken with SMP. Is any way to filtering by process name?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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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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
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[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,
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Stops working when you open a window.
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How can I list directories with ls and sort them by their owner and group?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to recurively change the owner of dir. for nobody user . for examplei have /parent_dir with owner root.now i change the owner to nobody(system user) recurively
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am facing a basic problem in RHEL 5.2. Some of files in a mounted showing ? in place of owner and group owner.
root# find /data/abc -nouser
listing those files.
How to delete those files because
root# find /data/abc -nouser -exec rm -rf {} ;
showing error access is denied.
I can't remove a file where I am owner of :
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[jonas@webserver html]$ ls -l | grep file
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jonas jonas 3323 2010-03-15 20:33 file.php
[jonas@webserver html]$ rm file.php
rm: cannot remove 'file.php': Permission denied
The directory that holds this file is html :
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[jonas@webserver mysite]$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-15 18:32 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 9 apache webusers 4096 2010-03-15 20:34 html
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
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn my RHES4 I noticed a load of files which had owner set as the owners uid rather than the actual username - is this usual behaviour ? On a similar system the same files actually have the username as the owner.It's just causing me issues as I have changed the users ID and now some thing's wont start meaning I have to manually do a find and chown on the system.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to download a file and extract it in one line, but the extracted file is owned by me instead of root even though I'm using sudo:
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sudo sh -c 'wget [URL]'
If I don't try to extract the file, it is owned by root as I expected:
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sudo sh -c 'wget [URL]'
mount an NFS directory as a regular user (which doesn't have sudo rights) because a suitable entry (i.e. with the user option) is defined in /etc/fstab file.But, when I mount it, I am not the owner of it! The owner is the default superuser of the system. So I don't have write permissions in the mounted directory.
View 4 Replies View RelatedA 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.
I am creating a tar gzipp'ed archive on my local machine (as user1) using the following commands:
user1@devmachine:~/$ tar czpf
dir.tar.gz thedirectory
on the server, I untar it (as user 2) using the command
user2@servermachine:~/$ tar xzpf
dir.tar.gz
I find that the extracted files are owned by another user (say user3) What is the logic that is used to determine file ownership if the owner of the extracted file is not a user on the target machine? I am running Ubuntu 10.0.4 on both machines
This is about ubuntu 10.04
I can import projects to my cvs repository only when the repository set to group owner cvs. Which is fine to me.
But I found the project folder/files that I imported into the repository have group name other than cvs (in fact, that's my username). And that prevents others to check out my code.
What are the best file persmissions and owner for web files?
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