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The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.

The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner/group of a file.

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Only allow a user to CHMOD and CHOWN in their home directory or a specified directory

I have a Windows user on my network who has Samba access to our linux development server. Occasionally permissions or ownership will become confused for reasons unknown and he will no longer be able to edit files. To get round this I have given him…
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Chown root mistake

I accidentally executed the chown userx:userx / command. Is there a way to fix this in a gentle way? I know the mysql folder has to be owned by mysql:mysql. But what about the other folders? Are there permissions scripts available? It's a VPS that…
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what chmod and owner:group settings are best for a web application?

we are configuring a PHP web application on CentOS and have all our files currently in /var/www/html/project/ Apache is configured to run as apache:apache and has access to the directory above. Right now our files and directories have the following…
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chown or chgrp NFSv4 with idmapd error: Invalid argument

I only found 1 or 2 other posting on this, without any solution, so I am creating a new, more specific question for my case. System set up: NFS server running NFSv4. NFS client running RedHat 6, idmapd running with the following in…
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Maintain setgid bit (after bower install or gulp build)

We run web servers where we have the following situation: The www-data user runs the web server and must have read+write access to the files The deploy user deploys all the code The bob and alice users might login via ssh and change configurations…
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Recovering from a system-wide chown?

I have a Linux web server with multiple sites being hosted with CPanel. I was having trouble accessing a site, so I ran this command: chown -R root:root /home/evalreal/. While waiting for the command I start seeing a bunch of errors. The errors went…
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Basic clarification about Limited FTP/sFTP users

I would like to get some clarification about the correct way to create limited users to access to my VPS user as WEBSERVER with Nginix. I'm used to NOT install FTP and access via SFTP only. It is ok for every set up? this is what I usually do from…
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Determing the Execution Environment of Apache

I am having this error: [Mon Dec 05 10:22:23 2011] [warn] mod_rewrite: Running external rewrite maps without defining a RewriteLock is DANGEROUS! [Mon Dec 05 10:22:23 2011] [error] (13)Permission denied: mod_rewrite: could not start RewriteMap…
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Cross-group file permissions in Linux

I have 2 users: Alice and Bob and 2 groups: Management and Personnel. Alice has primary group Management, and secondary groups Personnel and Alice. Bob has primary group Personnel and secondary group Bob. Now they both need read/write access to the…
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Limit sudo to only one directory and it's subdirectories by sudoers file

So I would like to limit Apache to only change permissions in a certain folder and all of it's sub-directories, so this is what I have in my sudoers file apache ALL= (ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod -R [g+ws] /var/www/sites/[a-z]+ But that does not…
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MySQL (local) owner and permissions

I recently successfully installed the 64 bit version of mysql-5.5.8 on a MacBook Pro in the /usr/local directory. To address a completely unrelated software (RVM actually) , I chown-ed my /usr/local directory to $USER, Which made MySQL very unhappy.…
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root directory permissions changed to 777 by mistake whats now?

By Mistake on Ubuntu 9.04 my colleague has changed the permissions to 777 on root directory (/) whats the best way to recover the permissions ?
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How can I reset the permissions of /bin /boot /etc and /dev to orignal owner, Ubuntu?

I accidentally changed the ownership of the /bin, /boot, /etc and /dev recursively to nobody:nogroup using chown when I misplaced a forward slash! How can I resort the original file ownerships? I've managed to get them all to root:root but I'm not…
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www-data ownership makes the WordPress installation consume more memory

I have a WordPress installation. When the ownership of the folder is root, the memory consumed is okay. However, when I change the ownership to the www-data user, it starts consuming a lot of memory and starts throwing a lot of out of memory error.…
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rabbitmq kubernetes with NFS mount

I tried to set up a rabbitmq cluster in a kubernetes envirnoment that has NFS PVs with the help of this tutorial. Unfortunately it seems like the rabbitmq wants to change the owner of /usr/lib/rabbitmq, but when I have a NFS directory mounted there,…
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