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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Php can't write anything
Just moved my websites to my first vps (centos 7). So i'm very new to linux. Now I have a problem: php cant write anything. Can't make dirs, files, edit them. Php runs as "apache" Things I tried:
Chmod all dirs and files to 777
Chown all dirs and…
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I changed the owner of sudo. Is it possible to change it back to root?
Title says it all. I was copy-paste troubleshooting and I accidentally changed the owner of sudo from root to my username. No I can't sudo because:
sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?
So I tried chown root: sudo but I was…
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Putty: pscp file transfer change permission
I am transferring my file using pscp with the command below:
pscp target\app.war root@127.0.0.1:/jetty/webapps
What would be the syntax to change the ownership of the app.war file ?
In other words to perform chown -R jetty:jetty to the app.war…
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chown: Operation not permitted for root on ext4 root-partition
After upgrading from Ubuntu v14.04 to v16.04 chown doesn't seem to work any longer on my server.
I checked following:
filesystem is RW
user exists
folder is not immutable
all commands executed as root
and for the heck i tried following (as…
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Rsync to remote server and change file / directory ownerships
I am using Rsync to deploy to a remote server, which is working. However the file and directory ownership always replaces old files with root:root
I need the ownership of all files and folders transferred to the destination folder on the remote…
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Accidentally ran chown -R / and now mail queue not being delivered
EDIT: BTW, everything else including all websites on the server are running fine except that mail queue in whm is not automatically being delivered. What directory would I need to change permissions on just to fix mail sending again?
So last…
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Give private key ownership to user without /home
so I am looking to set up ssh private/public keys between two servers, for use with sftp (and ultimately lftp using sftp - but one step at a time).
I have created the private and public keys, and found that in order to use them, the private key must…
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Prevent changing ownership of a file
I have file with 777 permission. How can I prevent changing ownership of that file by others? ie I need to prevent chown x:y myfile
myfile is actually a log file written from web. it's ownership is www-data.
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Reset ownership
An employee accidental recursively changed permissions from the root directory to apache. I reran it to root, we fixed MySQL, but SSH still doesn't work. What is the correct way to restore the ownership for sshd?
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Files 404 unless owned by 0:0
When I upload files to my staging server (CentOS 6.5, Apache 2.2.26) - such as images or PDFs - via FTP, or by using a file upload script I created (using Laravel 4), they 404 even though they exist.
However, any files that are pulled via git are…
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chown during rsync from windows to unix
rsync: --groupmap=*:www-data: unknown option
I am trying to add an option to my rsync line to set the group of the files transfered to have www-data as their group.
When i add the option i get the above message.
Here is the rsync line i am…
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Mounted Gluster volume keeps reverting to "root" permissions
Ive got GlusterFS running on an AWS server and its mounted to another AWS server. The folder that is mounted though keeps reverting to "root" ownership, when this happens uploads fail from the web browser as nginx is the owner trying to upload the…
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Reset Permissions and Ownership Script
On a development server (Ubuntu 14.04) we have this shell script running every minute on cron:
for dir in /home/*; do
username=$(basename $dir)
echo "changing ownership to $username in $dir/public_html"
chown -R $username:$username…
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Change permission for home directory on debian
My Debian machine is running DirectAdmin and we have build our own CMS. By now, when we create a new website a new folder and user will created down the /home/ directory.
As an developer to setup templates for each customer we need to be in the user…
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Permission samba shared www folder
I'm having trouble with permissions on a samba shared folder on ubuntu server 14.04.
This is the www one. But actually, it's in /home/administrateur.
As I want to preserve my www folder whatever happens, I put it in my /home/administrateur folder.…
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