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All filenames mentioned here are directories. The permissions of /media/disk are 0744 (drwxr--r--). The permissions of /media/disk/directory are 0755 (drwxr-xr-x). I do not own these directories in ...
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I must be missing something. I created a service account that will run a script I created as a cron job. The script links files to be processed to a watched folder. The script worked fine running as ...
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My apache server puts the logfile for my project under /var/log/apache2/foo_error.log I set the user and group to the ones of my project (foo:www-data) and I even tried to chmod to 777 (i know that ...
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In my CMS, I noticed that directories need the executable bit (+x) set for the user to open them. Why is the execute permission required to read a directory, and how do directory permissions in Linux ...
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The execute permission makes sense for files (which include scripts etc.), but when it comes to directories, the write (w) permission works the same way as execute (x), right? Which means, if we are ...
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Say I have a folder called folder in the following path: my_path = /a/b/c/d/e/folder and a file called file in that folder. Then, say I run this command to remove group permissions under /a/ > ...
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[Disclaimer: there's no malicious intent to this question, I'm trying to understand the ln -s command for a school project] Say I have a file system with my home folder, /home/anna. /home/bob is a ...
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I've just re-enabled an app after OS change. Symbolic link to it is located of course in /var/www/myapp . After changing permissions to 0775 (even 0777 temporary), changing owner to apache:myuser, ...
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I get permission errors when I have a process running as root, spawning a subprocess as www-data, which then accesses a dir which is owned by root, with a subfolder which is owned by www-data, which ...
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I installed Noip and ran the command which created the config file /usr/local/bin/noip2 -C and then I ran the run command /usr/local/bin/noip2 and it returned Can't locate configuration file /usr/...
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I want to secure my linux server by not permitting the root user to login. For this I've created another user with: useradd username mkdir /home/username/ mkdir /home/username/.ssh chmod 700 /home/...
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I have changed my DocumentRoot to /home/user/www. To achieve that I have just changed the 2 occurrences of the path at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. The permissions of /home/user/www are ...
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So I'm adding a new user on a machine to give a family member some remote storage. After setting up their login and home directory. Here's the stat File: `/home/heather' Size: 4096 Blocks: ...
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I have some directories, with following permissions: drwxr-xr-x 18 user1 root 4096 Oct 27 11:25 /home/test1/test2 drwxr-xr-x 24 user1 root 4096 Oct 21 08:38 /home/test1 drwxr-xr-x 492 root root 12288 ...
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I created folder /home/john/Desktop/test. I want to give it access to user john itself and to user mike. I created group: sudo groupadd jm And added users to same group: sudo usermod -a -G jm john ...
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