My system won't boot because the contents of /etc/fstab, while semantically valid, are not meaningful in my system - neither / or /home is defined, for example.For this reason too fsck will not run.
The grub menu displays OK.How do I rebuild fstab?How do I get permission to change any files on my system when using the Live-CD? Right now all attempts are stopped with a 'permission denied' message.
So my old computer died. I was Dual-Booting Jaunty and Windows XP. Now I'm trying to recover my files from the hard drive, but of course, you can't do it from Windows 7. I could recover everything from the Windows Partition, but Windows doesn't even see the Ubuntu Partition.
So I popped in a Lucid Lynx live CD to recover my files, only to find out that several seemingly random folders within the Documents folder have a cross on them. When trying to access them I get a message saying I "Do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents."
What should I do now? I really need to recover those files!
I had used test desk program to restore my files ,the files that recovered was saved in home folderthe problem is that these files are become root permission only ,so i cantcopy , move theme
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm a new Ubuntu user, I just installed Ubuntu today and I'm loving it. But this issue has been driving me nuts all day, I've searched for hours for something like this and all posts were about external hard drives. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my MBP 13" then dual booted into Ubuntu. I can mount and access my MBP hard drive, but when it comes to the Mac home user files, I don't have permission to even READ.
How can I change that? I tried doing so by dual booting into Mac and changing the folder permissions and also making them shared folders but nothing worked.
For example /dev/loop*, /dev/raw/*, etc., they are automatically reset to root/root after rebooted.Change the owner/permission of device files maybe not a good idea, though. I just want to know if it is possible and how?
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all go normal, but when saving the edited file using NetBeans, the file's permissions are set to 0600 by default, making me not able to browse to the file at the remote server till chmod it to 0777 or else.
the main project folder have permissions 0777 and owned to me.
Also the all sub-folders and files under the project's folder have the same permission 0777.
What is the problem ? And how to get over it ?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, NetBeans 6.9 ( Final Edition ).
The Connection to the remote server is via FTP in Passive Mode.
I am researching how to make an effective backup on Ubuntu Server. This server will have Vsftp, VPN, Samba stuff , many other added packages +many printers, many users + data. I know I can use tar for the data /u no problem. 1. I was testing tar on the /home directory on a few user directories. I then created a new directory and did a restore of the users directories on it. I noticed the /home/user owner and group were root. The files in each directory remained the same. This gave me concern. If I had a crash and had to restore these to a new HD. I would have to change these, what else would I need to change? 2. Since I have many config files, how do I back up them? I know I can do a dump, but then users shouldn't be on the system. The system files will change as they add users, printers, etc, and asking users to not work, is not really an option while dump is running. I thought I could do a tar on whole system. (cron late at night .. not as many users) Then in event of crash of HD.
1. Boot from live cd
2. format the new drive
3. tar back in the whole system
Will this work right? Is there something I am missing?
I was trying to install openSUSE11.4 using the Live CD. But when it started copying the root filesystem, it hung on 15% and waited forever. The CD stopped spinning too.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedA rather new user here, was messing with the preferences on a user folder of mine on Karmic, looking for a way to make the folder invisible to users (like the old windows option). Set it to 'none', then closed it, returned to the directory finding the folder with a box with an 'x' on it.
Went to open it, it says 'access denied'. So I think 'okay, how do I undo that', go back to see if I can restore it back to 'read & write' with no sucess.
Seached the forums for a solution to this issue, most of solutions revolve around 'gksudo nautilus' which I attempted to open via command-line. Nothing seemed pop open after I entered my password in responce to entering said command-line, probably because I really don't know how to use Nautilus.
I am getting annoyed that every time I try to extract, move, or delete a folder I get:
"Unable to move due to file permission"
"Unable to delete due to file permission"
"Unable to extract due to file permission"
I really have a hard time trying to use, and understand the chmod folder stuff in terminal. So I asked a friend and he helped me create a desktop program or icon where I would just drop the folder I wanted to use on it, and permission wouldn't be needed anymore.
Well, I dropped a a folder on it one day and the folder didn't open, so I tried another folder and eventually the thing never worked again so I removed it.
Is it possible to allow the entire hard drive or OS (Ubuntu 9.10) to give me permission to all the folders? I only installed the [password to log] in thing, so I wouldn't have to worry about people in my house using my computer without consent. If this isn't possible can someone post a method to create the launcher or icon?
Note: I made a root desktop thing (Guy holding what looks to be an ID card) but not even that will allow me to delete the folder in the file system. I the entire game that the folder is called is removed already, so there is no point me leaving this folder alone.
I'm trying to move a file to opt folder. But I cant do it because I dont have the permission to do it. In folder preferences it says " you are not the owner"How can I move a file to opt folder? or How can I change the folder permission settings?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Ubuntu 10.4 on an Intel machine. The machine also has Windows 7. So some of the partitions of the hard drive are Windows compatible (NTFS). They are all mounted when system is booted with Ubuntu and all files are accessible. However, when I try to change permission or limit access to a group, CHMOD command does not work. It doesn't return any error and everything seems to work fine but I can't change any permission.
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Code:
mount.cifs //192.168.0.3/shmelevsky /mnt/tmp/ -o user=shmelevsky,uid=1000,gid=1000
it works fine, I could create/edit files and folders, bu I could not change permission for them:
Code:
root@darkstar:/mnt# chmod 700 tmp/www/
chmod: changing permissions of `tmp/www/': Permission denied
root@darkstar:/mnt#
I would like to change the dialogue that says "permission denied" when something has to be done as root or that user does not have permission to do something. Is this at all possible? (Also, not really sure which category this should be in, that's why it's here)
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI created email account with commands "adduser -s /sbin/nologin test; passwd test";Is there any way to grant permission to user "test" to change his password by himself? My system is CentOS 4.4.
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Did I place image in wrong directory or is it permissions problem.
When I installed Centos 5, it asked me password twice. One is to root, another is a user acount.
Right now, I want to do "cd /root" under my user acount. It responds me:
permission denied.
Can I change permission of root?
I have a script that needs to extract certain information form the /proc/net/ip_conntrack file once in a while. I do not wish to run this script as the root user.
Default permissions for the file is:
I can change it with:
But that does not stick after a reboot. Is there some configuration file for file-permissions in the /proc directory in Ubuntu Server 9.10? Or do I just have to stick a chmod line in some startup script?
I have ubuntu 10.4. i install rdesktop 1.7. i run this commands:
Tal is external hard drive connecting at usb in ntfs file system.
I connect to windows 7. i see the hard drive in computer and i can access to files and create new files and folders, but when i try to copy a new file to a folder he show me a error message: You need premission perform this action
Your require permission from computer's administratorn to make changes to this folder tal on my computername
Disk from Remote Desktop Connection.
I try chmode and chowne too but i read i linux forum when it ntfs is no use.
I have accidentally changed the permission of "/usr/bin" directory and its files by the command on my Debian/testing system:
Code: Select all$chmod 775 /usr/bin -R
First, there was a problem with sudo but I fixed it. Now I am suspicious that some programs may not run because of changing their setuid or setgid. I have posted this question here and found out that there is no easy way to restore their setuid or setgid for Debian systems. For RPM based distributions, it is fairly easy. I would like to add a few questions:
Is it possible to write a script which stores all directories and files default permissions like RPM based distributions? And it restores its previous state. I suspect that some programs may not run from my user account (I only use the computer myself.) If I run the programs from my root account, will the programs run without problem?
I need to configure software as debian image to work on server. I need to create user who is not root, but being able to change IP (I don't know if administrators who will install my image need to give static IP to it, so I want to create special user role for them being able to change IP but not able to see some restricted folders in the image).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running a dual boot system with winXP and Debian Lenny. Here's my hard drive set up
hda1 - windows ntfs (just for use with windows)
hda2 - / ext3
hda3 - swap
hda4 - /home ext3
hda5 - /windows fat32 (shared partition between linux and windows)
Now, I have access to /windows but it's owned by root so I can't create/modify anything and I can't unmount it to use chown.
Dear Friends, For Upload a Web Site in my Local Fedora using Apache I need to use the /var/www/html folder.But I cant add/edit anything on html folder
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View 2 Replies View RelatedIf I am not the file' owner or root, can I use chmod to change the file permission?
Assume I have group/write access to the file, e.g. 775
How do I permission a folder?I have a group called serveradmin..I want to add and give the group server admin write permissions to folder /logs.I know how to permission a file.. but changing the folder permissions isn't coming to me.I must add that I don't want to remove any of the current permission on the folder/directory.
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