Questions tagged [chown]

Question 1

ls -al /media/victor/Backup/ Output: insgesamt 25 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 19. Aug 13:49 . drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 19. Aug 12:27 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 19. Aug 10:43 DATA -...

Question 2

I've encountered multiple cases where new Linux users accidentally run a command equivalent to sudo chown -R $USER:$USER / which silently destroys permissions for the whole system. (Often this ...

Question 3

I installed texlive as usual in /usr/local/texlive/2025. When installing I typed umask 0027 prior to each command (./configure, make...), hoping that the resulting files would have root as owner and ...

Question 4

I have up to terabytes of data (a large number of smaller files) that could contain wrong owner, group or permissions. To repair that we had a script doing sudo -n chown -R user:group "/path"...

Question 5

I am having a problem utilizing a mounted drive on my Raspberry Pi 2B running Diet Pi. dietpi@DietPi:/media/dietpi/Other$ sudo chmod 666 -R /media/dietpi dietpi@DietPi:/media/dietpi/Other$ touch text....

Question 6

I want to assign file ownership in Linux. sudo chown (new owner) (file name?) What should I use for file name?

Question 7

What does the following command do? sudo chmod -R a=,a+rX,u+w,g+w /data I understand that it changes permissions, but what exactly and how?

Question 8

I am setting up the directory permission of a fresh new linux Debian 12 server. I have added my user(uid=1000) to the www-data group. My commands are as below - sudo chown -R 1000:www-data public_html/...

Question 9

I have a folder under /mnt/ with drwxrwxrwx permissions and under root:root I then mount a USB drive (exFAT) to this folder and it becomes drwxr-xr-x The issue is that now I cannot scp to that folder ...

Question 10

Context : Debian 12 system recovery trial after a btrfs file system corruption (roots tree) with no backup but access to all(?) the files. I made a copy of the system after the corruption, everything ...

Question 11

I have script that can be runned from different users on the same machine. This script should write logs to the same file on every run. Minimal version of script: #!/usr/bin/env bash ...

Question 12

Given, touch /tmp/abc ln -vs abc /tmp/def $ ls -l /tmp/??? -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Apr 10 22:10 /tmp/abc lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3 Apr 10 22:10 /tmp/def -> abc Why I'm getting: $ sudo ...

Question 13

This command: sudo chown -R root:root directory will remove the SUID bit and reset all capabilities for files. I wonder why it's done silently and it's not mentioned in the man page. Weirdly the GUID ...

Question 14

I have some users in the "sambashare" group and some in the "sambashareAdmin" group. Only users from the "sambashareAdmin" group are alowed to change/create stuff. All ...

Question 15

I try to set for NEW created files/directories in /home/test: group to "test" right to "770" This works for the group (1). chown :test /home/test chmod g+s /home/test But I do ...

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