Questions tagged [file-permissions]
Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights for specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or modify the contents of the filesystem.
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How to correct NTFS permissions set by OneDrive client?
We use a Windows Server, which we want to get rid of in a few months. As replacement we configured SharePoint via Office 365, and we use the OneDrive client for synchronisation of files on the ...
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Permission problems with uWSGI and Modoboa
I have run a manual installation of Modoboa (https://modoboa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#manual-installation), which runs a webapp in uWSGI. I moved the static content to /var/www/html ...
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Why executable files (mode x flagged) under a folder cannot run?
I thought that a script file under my /data folder cannot be executed is because it is not set 'x' permission , but after chmod +x, it still cannot run, even my handmade simple test script cannot if I ...
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Systemd service with DynamicUser cannot write to its CacheDirectory
I'm running OpenSuse Leap 15.4.
I have created a unit file for the bazel-remote remote cache server, for the Bazel build system.
I wanted to use the DynamicUser feature to make the service more secure,...
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Amazon Linux 2023 AMI Permissions
I'm setting up a new EC2 Instance with AMI Linux 2023. (I'm super new to Linux/AMI). I followed this tutorial on the AWS website: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-lamp-amazon-...
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is /etc/sudoers writable or not
The default permission in /etc/sudoers file is readonly for root and group root as in picture is obvious :
So when you open it with any test editor it can't be written and give error read only.
now ...
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Windows NTFS filesystem - user cannot access file using Administrators group permissions
There is a shared folder on the computer running Windows 2012R2 with a NTFS filesystem.
There is a local User X who is part of the local Group Administrators on the computer.
The Shared folder is ...
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How should I modify file permissions to accomodate Wordpress
I have been successfully using the method described here: Maintained by a Single User and it has been working well for me. This is my script for all my websites:
sudo chown -R WebAdmin /var/www/...
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pg_ctl start on Windows gives error: could not open file "global/pg_control": Permission denied
On Windows Server 2022, I am logged in as Administrator and trying to do a pg_ctl start on a Postgresql database that was initially created by user SYSTEM, but get the following error in the cmd ...
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Incorrect Permissions and Ownership in /etc/nginx/sites-available Folder for Containers
I seem to have encountered an issue with the default permissions and ownership of the containers within my /etc/nginx/sites-available directory. The current permissions and ownership structure appears ...
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Dovecot missed permissions to access mail directory
I'm trying to install a new mail server and I think I've done something completly wrong. I don't know how to fix/continue my current situation.
I've installed postfix on my Debian 11 system, working ...
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SFTP only user can't see files in a directory when that directory has read access to public users
I have a user which I have called username in the below code, in the sshd config file there is this:
Match user username
ChrootDirectory /media/pi/128db83f-859d-48dc-a784-4337c53c736f/username
Match ...
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Access to SMB folder from LocalService account
this is the situation:
I have a Synology server with file folder normally accessible from the windows domain computers;
I also have onto the primary domain server an application built onto Apache ...
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How to set file permissions if user logged on using Smart Card or Windows Hello for Business
I have a hybrid joined Windows domain and have set up log-on with Smart Cards and Windows Hello for business. I would like to be able to set file server permissions based on whether a user logged on ...
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File System Private download method not Writeable -Drupal
Giving File System error that it is not writeable or folder does not exist on Production Env
Drupal version - 9.5.9
Server we are using Amazon Linux2
I have added line in setting.php $settings['...
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No Write Access to WD My Cloud NAS on Ubuntu Linux
I recently purchased a new WD My Cloud and was able to use the FTP app to transfer files from an old machine that was running OMV to the new NAS. I cannot seem to mount the NAS to my Ubuntu laptop ...
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What are the proper permissions and ownership (including wp-config.php and .htaccess) for Wordpress installations on a LEMP server
I am running an Ubuntu based Linux/Nginx/MariaDB/PHP (LEMP), server with my Wordpress installation in the root account at /var/www/example.com/. My Wordpress is running as the www-data user, and Nginx ...
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Unable to List Contents or Create Files in /var/tmp Folder from PHP Executed Bash Script
Objective:
I want to trigger a webhook on a private linux-machine (its a local system not connected to internet), which can delete the spool data generated by CUPS server in /var/tmp folder.
To ...
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NT Security Descriptor
In active directory an object have several permissions on many objects.
how to view permissions of particular object?
i am asking like for eg user Kavin have read permissions on some folder, full ...
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ACL permissions not syncing with LDAP
Have a MacStudio running system 13.3.1 set up as a file server.
It is bound to an Open Directory server.
Using TinkerTool as a GUI to set/update permissions of the shared files/folders.
Everything ...
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Change permissions/ownership of file/directory owned by 33:33 in Linux
I have a directory where I used to make the backup of my owncloud files from Ubuntu. It's owned by user 33 and group 33, which in Ubuntu are the www-data (Apache) user and group. Now I have changed ...
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How to take ownership of all contents in CSC folder?
I have files that was saved as offline files from a Synology server to the CSC folder on my computer that I would like to delete. I cannot delete the files unless I individually take ownership of ...
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Move docker compose wordpress with local volume to new host with correct permission
I'm struggling to migrate / move my Docker Compoe project with Wordpress and Mysql to a new host.
My docker-compoye.yaml is as follows:
version: '3.1'
services:
wordpress:
image: wordpress
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OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: <relative_path_to_file>
(On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
When trying to create or edit any file or directory on my hard drive I get a 'Read-only file system'-error (two days ago I could still do that):
$ whoami
mattia
$ mkdir example
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Error writing lock file: Permission denied
(On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
After connecting my NAS drive with the mount command in the nashome directory,
the following error occurs, when trying to edit or create any file in the mounted directory tree:
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How to force custom permissions on files created by git checkout command?
I need files created by git checkout command to have custom permissions.
Even with core.sharedrepository=0777 setting git creates working tree files with 0644 permissions. But I want it to be at least ...
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Unable to Write, Permission denied
As an apache user, I was trying edit some files owned by a different user, lets call it docroot
drwxrwxrwx 2 docroot docroot 327 Feb 15 20:34 .
drwxr-xr-- 53 docroot docroot 8192 Jan ...
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run icacls across domains - failed trust relationship
I frequently have to create Directories and set permissions on Samba-Shares which are joined to foreign Domains without Trust Relationship to my "home" Domain.
Mounting and creating ...
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Folders untouchable: owner unknown and cannot be changed
I have a parent folder, let's call it 'P', and in P resides 5 child folders. I am administrator of this non-domain joined server, but I cannot delete these child folder or in any other way alter them.
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Create shared folder as active directory would in powershell
With Active Directory I can manually create new users. Every time I do that, I use right click -> Copy on that user, then I modify some things like Name, Surname and SamAccountName. This process ...
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Can't change file owner as root
I can't change the owner of a file (I'm logged in as root).
Output of chown root Shrek.avi:
chown: changing ownership of 'Shrek.avi': Operation not permitted
Output of chattr -i Shrek.avi:
chattr: ...
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User unable to access files in a folder with SUID S bit set
I have a folder which I want to share with users of a group named frx. I had applied chmod g+s to the folder, but for some reason the SUID bit (for folders in the /home/frx directory) came out as S ...
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Automating NFSv3 File/Folder permissions in Windows
I'm a Windows/MSSQL DBA who is inheriting a quirky system through no fault of my own, and had a quick question.
Background
I have an Azure NFSv3 volume that is being exported to a Windows Server 2019 ...
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Are there any potential pitfalls to changing the permissions of config files under /etc to a non-root user?
There are various services which are being run on our machines, e.g. cassandra, datadog, etc.
Occasionally, we need to change the configuration, and we wish to automate the propagation of the config ...
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How to set limited permissions using command line on windows?
user want to delete all permissions and keep only modify permission for everyone and full permission to system.
Like this.
But present with icacls command
icacls "%ProgramData%\myfolder\...
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Samba AD sysvol sync unison permissions issue
I'm having an issue with syncing the unix permissions and ownership on the sysvol between two Ubuntu Samba AD DCs using unison. I have copied the idmap.ldb file from DC1 to DC2 and the Windows ...
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Rsync makes the destination folder unwritable before copying files to it (and then of course it fails with Permission Denied)
I want to use rsync to deploy a project from my dev machine (Windows 11, CygWin) to a remote server (Ubuntu) through SSH. I've made sure that my SSH user has full write access to the destination ...
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Cannot read wordpress PHP files in NGINX - HTTP error 500
I have uploaded Wordpress files to /var/www/html/mysite.com, given recursive permissions 755 and recursively owned by www-data:www:data
I use the PHP-FPM service running with NGINX as web server on ...
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executing a command without password prompt or root
For the sake of writing a script, I'd like my minikube-role-user to execute the command minikube tunnel without a password prompt, without switching user to root, be it by su or temporarily by sudo, ...
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Use smb share also as docker volume
I've one Debian 11 Server which has multiple smb-shares under /samba/.
Now I'd like to run multiple instances of a file synchronisation software called Syncthing inside docker containers on this ...
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AD-Joined Samba Share with Windows XACL Access Denied
Overview
I have a file server and domain controller both running Samba 4.15.9.
The DC is the only one in the forest.
The DC, file server, and a Windows 10 client are joined to the same domain.
On the ...
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Windows-10 shared folder permission
We have a small office LAN with a few Windows 10 PCs (without server). One PC has a shared folder which various users create files for sharing. For various reasons some created files are sometimes ...
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How to configure vsftpd to set correct permissions, group and owner (Apache Webserver) of newly created files?
I installed vsftpd and I can login with the new user sftp to the server. But if I create a new file via FileZilla the new file has got 755 permission and its group is not www-data (33).
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PHP File Permissions and Running HTML Files as PHP
I am running a Linux server (a DV server with Media Temple). It's a pretty standard LAMP setup. I'm running PHP 7.4.
I'm using two programs to upload files to the server: Filezilla and a tool called ...
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Limit drag & drop mess
I have a Windows Server 2016 acting as a file server with thousands of files in a well-defined tree. Different people have different access to different parts of the tree.
The problem is that some ...
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Error while transferring file permissions
I ran into a problem, wrote a script that compresses pdf files through a program and transfers rights to a new file by copying from the old one to differentiate access to new files.
Here is the part ...
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File sharing access denied error on the Windows 2016 file server. only with ONE folder
My problem is as followed:
Situation
I have a Windows 2016 file server. In the server role the d: drive is shared. I have many shared folders each with the name of a user and shared to that user. ...
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Shell Script to Move a File Into Another User's Directory?
I'm running a Ubuntu 16.04 server. On my server, I have a file in directory /home/userA/dirA:
userA@myUbuntu:~$
userA@myUbuntu:~$ pwd
/home/userA
userA@myUbuntu:~$
userA@myUbuntu:~$ ls -l
total 8
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Is there a tool to check and manage file permissions?
I developed a set of rules for file and directory owner and permissions for our company server. E.g.:
Projects/: permission 750, owner root, group internal
Projects/* (directories): permission 2770, ...
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Process unable to write file - disk space ran out what happened?
I had a situation with a server misconfig. Nginx was unable to write its logs due to invalid file permissions and checking with free the buffers/caches were at about 3.2GB (out of 4GB Memory).
Nginx ...
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