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Preserve ownership with rsync, without root

I would like to perform incremental backups (for the entire filesystem) from a machine. rsync does this quite will, however I would like to also preserve file ownership - meaning, make it possible to restore it. Is this possible to do without…
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How do you determine the OWNER of an Oracle Database

When you install an Oracle database in a Unix server, the Unix user id you use for the installation becomes the OWNER of the database. What is the most reliable and general way of determining in a shell script which Unix user is the owner of an…
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correct file system permissions for joomla installation on linux

My question is pretty general. Lets assume I have a linux distribution web server, with the /var/www/ is the web directory. I used my superuser account to upload and unzip the Joomla installation .zip folder. The linux system user for web users is…
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Correct web user for PHP-FPM under Nginx

I've always been accustomed to running PHP under Nginx as the www-data user, for everything: php service, cron, CLI, etc. Recently though, after reading up on firstly this article and then this article, I'd like to know how necessary it is to run…
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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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Use Windows PowerShell to find and delete files from specific owner

Because of a ransomware attack (no big deal, all recovered from backup) I want to clean up the directories and sub directories on the network share where the attack happened to create a lot of scrambeled files. They are all owned by the user who…
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windows 2008 r2 Change owner on multiple folders

I've a quest to change the owner on about 800 folders. The owner should be equal to the folder name. I've tried something like this: set /p userDir=username ICACLS "D:\test\%userDir%" /setowner "domain\%userDir%" /T But I get the error message…
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Home directory owner is root instead of user

I am adding users using the command useradd in opensuse 12.1 and creating a home directory on NFS. The problem here is the home directory's owner is root instead of user. msvlsi67:~ # useradd -g users -d /export/home/raj67 -m raj67 useradd:…
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Automounted AFP home directories are owned by root (OS X Yosemite client, Linux Servers)

What I am trying to do but can't get to work I am trying to set up network users in Yosemite clients with their home directories on kerberised AFP. I am using automountd to have the home directories mounted under /home/username as soon as they are…
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Owner/Group issue on Mirror server

I am running Gluster-FS with a High-Availability Storage setup. Both client and server nodes have NginX running to serve same files. main.mysite.com mirror1.mysite.com ..etc.. The problem is that the mirror nodes can't serve files because the owner…
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Set owner of new users home folder to user instead of BUILTIN\Administrators when using ADUC (on Windows Server 2008 R2)

In our AD, we create new users by copying a default user in ADUC. For the default user we specified a home folder using the %USERNAME% variable (mapped to H:): \fileserver\homes\%USERNAME% For new users, the home folder on the server is…
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reverting file owner on CentOS

By mistake I ran a stupid command with a typo in it. I created a user "teamspeak" and I wanted to change file owner of current directory and it's sub directories, but by mistake I ran it in the "/". I was user "teamspeak" while I ran the command,…
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httpd start timestamp

can you tell me, why are last three httpd processes started at different time then others? also, why is process owner different? [root@myserver httpd]# ps aux | grep httpd root 5455 0.0 0.6 31980 13028 ? S 11:19 0:00…
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how to I change the owner of a folder on my server?

OK I'll be more specific - I have uploaded a bunch of folders via ftp. These now all have the the owner name of the account which I logged into FTP using. How do I change the owner to be the server name? and How do I find out what name the server…
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Account permissions needed to change file ownership

I have an application that needs to be able to change the owner of certain files. The application runs under a domain service account (with local admin rights to the application server, but not the rest of the domain). I have the ability to call vbs…
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