I've had to take ownership of a couple of directories where I've installed third party apps so that I can actually run/update them, but I noticed that when I used the command on a directory, "lock" icons appear on all of the child directories. Can anyone explain why that is and how to avoid it? If it's not avoidable, is it possible to mass select directories to change ownership from root to my account (if possible, is it wise?)?
View 2 RepliesI tried
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chown -R owner:group *
which does not work on the invisible directories (why?). When I used ".*" as wildcard it changed all (visible) files including the parent directory (the one I was currently working in which is the "dot") . I can change the invisible directories owner and group using dophin but how is it done from the command line?
My home/container has me as the owner but the contents all belong to root...I've tried >chown cbjhawks /home/cbjhawks but that didn't change anything. Should it be >chown -R cbjhawks /home/cbjhawks? Or what is the proper command for doing this...
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i unable to login to phpmyadmin and even all the databses are empty. any tips on how can i solve this.
Inspite of having 755 permissions on the chown command, it seems the command can be executed by the root only. I was under the impression that the 'x' permission for 'others' can give executable rights to the normal user too, which does not seem to be the case here. Just curious to know, if not the file perms itself, what controls the execution of the command?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a list specific list of dirs/files that need to be changed into another users name.I initially thought that this would work:chown -Rc user.name 'cat user.name1.txt' but I get chown: cannot access 'cat user.name1.txt No such file or directory
View 2 Replies View RelatedI issued chown '-hR <user>:<group> *' on a directory. chown also change dot and dot-dot in cwd and all subirectories. How do I go about recursively changing ownership without changing dot and dot-dot?
View 2 Replies View Relatedtitle says it all. I know, I know, a recursive chown, what was I thinking. It was late.
I just straight up:
sudo chown -R user /usr/
Now I can't `sudo', error is "authentication failure".
I am currently responsible for administering a shared Ubuntu machine with several unrelated users. Some of these users own multiple accounts and would like to "chown" files between them. Currently, I must handle such requests manually, and this is inconvenient.
I am looking for a way to allow non-root users to chown files with authentication (i.e. prompt for the password of the user to which ownership is being set to). This would prevent an exploit such as:
Quote:
cp /bin/bash ~/sudobash
chmod 4777 ~/sudobash
chown root:root ~/sudobash
Does such a solution exist?
I am trying to modify the user and group for a directory on my SD card, but I get an "Operation not permitted" error even when I'm signed in as root. I have the SD card auto mounted using:
Code:
root@ubuntu:/media# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/sd vfat auto,user,dmask=0000,fmask=0111 0 0
I did the chown task, as root, and the file icon still has the lock symbol on it. I did it on another file on my desktop just before that, and the symbol went away.I checked 'Properties', and it shows me as owner.It's an ISO on my desktop, copied from LXF Magazine DVD.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a fairly complicated request The short version is, I want to set up a system so that any user can change the ownership of a certain set of files at any time without root access. I think it's possible to set up sudoers to do that, but so far I have failed miserably.I have tried setting up a wrapper script around chown, then putting that script into sudoers, but it didn't work. Here's the script and sudoers (paths changed to genericize them):
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#this script moves a copy of the code
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I downloaded GNU coreutils and compiled them both identically on two different computers running Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. I performed a random audit, MD5 checking on chown, and they both have different checksums. Does anyone know why this has occurred?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got a bit of an issue here. I'm running OpenSUSE 11.1 with an old Windows XP drive slaved on the secondary cable. Works just find, as long as I sudo mount it (sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /windows/C) and I can access everything I have on the drive; this is not the issue. The issue is that I have another drive that I want to sync up. Eh, this needs to be a bit clearer.
When I have /windows/C mounted, it shows a padlock on the C drive, but not windows folder. (/windows/C). I have a dedicated entry in / to allow windows to work. I have maybe 25 folders in my Music folder that I want to sync to my /C drive, as I plan to re-install Suse on a bigger drive, and don't want to lose this music.
Upon su *password* into root, I can ls -l and I get
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ls -l
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 32768 1969-12-31 17:00 C
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The reason I want to get this stuff transfered over is because I'm running out of room on my smaller drive and I figure I may as well utilize a 200GB HDD for something besides a paperweight. I know this drive will work, but I don't want to lose my current data that exists on my smaller drive. (I think my current drive is a 40? Not completely sure right now)
I have an external drive which is parted into two partitions:
1) ext4, with filesystem ext4 which I use for backup
2) NTFS with filesystem NTFS
Since I re-installed jaunty the NTFS partition is owned by root. Whatever I do to make it change, it doesn't work. I used:
sudo chown jan:jan NTFS
sudo chown -R jan:jan NTFS
Still it says the owner is root and also the group is root. What else do I need to do to make me owner of this partition? The fileproperties say: drwxrwxrwx Still the partition is read only for me. In ntfs-config it says: "Enable write support for external drive"
I have a perplexing problem that I was hoping some of you might help me solve. My servers run 10.10 and also serve as standalone LTSP hosts - none of this is terribly relevant I hope. Recently, a user complained of permission problems and so I ran a simple command:
Code:
chown -R username:username /home/username/*
and
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I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 AMD-64 and mounted several partitions into /mnt/ directory. Now I want to be able to perform operations on those partitions without limitations. I'm trying to change the owner and group but it doesn't work. I'm typing sudo chown username filename to perform the operations.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to change the ownership of some all folders and files within them folders by making changes to parentfolder. But I mess it up.
The folder path is /home/myaccount/shared/target_folder.
Target folder holds several new folders with files inside. How can I easily change ownership to all folders and files within target_folder?
I tried this:
Code: sudo chown myusername /home/myusername/shared/target_folder But I get error:
Unnable to resolve. No such file or directory.
When I installed a new copy of my distro on another partition, in order to preserve all the settings from my old my user account, I made a user account with the same name on the new installation, and then copied my old user account's files (in their entirety) to the new user account, overwriting it. I did the copying from the root account (where else? I assume the new user account can't overwrite itself while it's open), and root became the owner of everything I copied, making it impossible to open the new user account. So I then chowned the new user account's folder to myself. I still can't get in, because apparently, chown only chowned the top folder, leaving all subdirectories owned by root. How do I make chown include all subdirectories? I scanned the man page, but didn't see a parameter.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a php script that creats some files and moves them into certain directories. When the files are created, the ownership is www-data:www-dataWhen they are moved to the appropriate directories the maintain that. But, I need the files' ownership to be changed to asterisk:asteriskHowever, www-data doesn't have permissions to do this. I don't want to run a cron as root that does this (I'm already doing that). I really wish there was a way for my files to be created via my php script and in that same file do something like:
system("chown asterisk:asterisk /home/test/test.call");
i have problem to chown the seconde drive, i dont know how can mount it,
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and the server has 16 gb ram and after i install openvz i can see only 3 gb ram, server working on centos 5. 32bit
I need to actively make sure some files, in a specific directory, are chmod 750 and owned by transmission:media-daemons. Other users will save to this directory, with other permissions and UID/GID but I must make sureto reinforce this default.
So I have this on my /etc/crontab:
Code:
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.
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Need to recurse a subdir tree, to apply chmod and chown and ls -al .
chmod -R xxx yyy does not function properly; -R is nonfunctional.
chown -R xxx yyy functions OK.
Is there a script which will follow a subdir tree and open each subdir ? glene77is
ok so im working on homework and im not understanding what my teacher is wanting me to do and i dont have time to email him seeing as he might not read it until tomorrow. so ill copy and paste and if anyone can better explain it,
2) Use the umask command to change your file creation mask such that,by default for new files and directories you create, no permissions are taken away from the 'user' (owner), write permissions are taken away from the 'group' (group owner), and all permissions (read, write and execute) are taken away from 'other'. Take a screenshot of your terminal window showing the results of this step.
3) Use the touch command to create a new file called testfile. Use the ls command to display the contents of your current directory in long mode. Take a screenshot of your terminal window showing the results of this step. Ensure that the directory listing for testfile is completely visible in your screenshot.
4) Use the chown command to change the user associated with testfile (the owner) to cint201. Take a screenshot of your terminal window showing the results of this step.
5) Use the chgrp command to change the the group associated with testfile (the group owner) to users. Take a screenshot of your terminal window showing the results of this step.
6) Use the chmod command to change the permissions for testfile such that the 'user' (owner) permissions are set to read, write and execute, the 'group' (group owner) permission are set to read and execute, the 'other' permissions are set to grant neither read, write nor execute, and finally set the SUID bit for the file. Take a screenshot of your terminal window showing the results of this step.
7) Use the ls command to display the contents of your current directory in long mode. Take a screenshot of your terminal window showing the results of this step. Ensure that the directory listing for testfile is completely visible in your screenshot.
vsftpd 2.3.2-3After user uploaded a file it has -rw-------(0600) permissions. Of course user can change permissions manualy to any he likeBut how to set for example 0700 by default?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to make a particular file accessible on my computer ( /dev/uinput ) without having to use sudo or su - I've set up a wiimote to act as a remote for my media player, and it requires access to that file. When I use chmod, chgrp or chown to change the file's settings, it enables access to the file - however, when I reboot my PC, the settings get reset, and I have to change the access rights when I first use it again. I've tried using the following commands to make the changes (substituting my username/groupname as user and group below), as root:
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I occasionally get into areas in Linux where I get my own ignorance demonstrated....System is a core quad running OpenSuse 11.2 64 bit on a LAN at home. I added a 750 GB SATA drive with the idea of putting all media on the drive i.e.music primarily plus a few movies and making the data sharable by anyone across the LAN i.e. the computer in the living room with an audio line to the stereo. My room mate is strictly a Windoze user so I figured if she wanted stuff on her machine as well then format the new drive with NTFS which I did using GPartd. I then set the drive to mount as /storage under root.
I loaded the music library &c and although I can play music from my user account on this machine I can not add music or videos or anything else except as root. I dont want to have to change to /root to do this. I attempted a chmod tonight as su from a terminal then in the root GUI using dolphin and resetting the permissions under properties and nothing changes. The drive appears in the filesystem as /storage with ownership as root. The permissions are
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 2010-03-27 22:55 storage
trying to chmod as root has no effect at all. I would like to be able to add content from any machine on the LAN plus be able to play a movie or video as well as music (I assume this would need the execute permission) but chmod -R 777 storage has no effect. Neither does cd'ing to the directory and trying to change ownership or permissions on the individual files or directories on the drive.Command line as su or as root from that gui, no difference. I do a
chmod g+w,o+rw storage
and the command appears to execute.However I ls -l and find the permissions unchanged. I obviously have or am doing something wrong, possibly in the way I set the drive up in the first place.
well, by mistake i ran a command and chown the whole server apache:apache
now, i can't do anything... is there a way to restore the original permissions??
I have a php script that I want to create a file and allow it to be downloaded. I know the dangers of chmodding a directory to 777 so I am trying to avoid this.
What I have done is logged in through ssl as root.
Navigated to the directory where the directory I want to chown is located. I then perform:
chown -R apache directory
In Linux, how do i prevent users from executing chown, chgrp or chmod?
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