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A Unix tool for changing file permissions

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Can a file that is executable be read?

If a file has permissions -rwx-wx-wx can it be read by other and group users, or can it only executed and written? Is there some way to read an executable file by executing it?
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Change all file permissions to 644 and all folder permissions to 755 recursively

How to change all file permissions to 644 and all folder permissions to 755 recursively using chmod in the following two situation: If they had 777 permissions Regardless of the permission (with ANY permissions)
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Why would chmod give "No such file or directory" when running recursively?

I can change the permissions of the file directly: # chmod --changes --recursive ug+rwX /var/www/shared/tmp/cache/assets/BA0/280/sprockets%2F286302903364106648b609d708884f78 and I can also change the permissions of the directory that contains…
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Still confused by Permissions - linux, nginx, php-fpm

I have read the canonical answer at What permissions should my website files/folders have on a Linux webserver? However I'm still stuck. My setup is: A developer user 'ade' who owns the directories and files that comprise a website The server is…
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Make recursive chmod faster

I have an installation script that unzips a directory, then recursively chmods its contents. I'm surprised it takes almost 10 times the time it takes to unzip, to run the following two commands: find $dir -type f -exec chmod a+r "{}" \; find $dir…
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Change group ownership of Folders with chmod g+s

I have a folder hierarchy that I want to change the group ownership including any subsequent file/folder additions. I was going to use chmod g+s but I'm not sure if it applies to already created folders and how I run that with the group name.
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chmod 1777 or 3777 on /tmp

Is there an ideal chmod for /tmp (with /var/tmp symlinked to /tmp)? I've seen people mention it both ways just curious as to the difference. Is it a security difference?
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Correct recursive chmod, separate for files & dirs

I'd like to recursively chmod a directory so that: Files are 0664 Directories are 0775 How to do it better, shorter, fancier? :) Maybe, use umask somehow? All find solutions are too long: I always end with Copy-Paste :)
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What exactly does this dpkg command do?

I fixed a permissin problem for nagios like discribed here. The command was: sudo dpkg-statoverride --update --add nagios www-data 2710 /var/lib/nagios3/rw sudo dpkg-statoverride --update --add nagios nagios 751 /var/lib/nagios3 Okay its obvious…
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Making Apache able to write to PHP files with PHP running as DSO?

I have PHP running as a DSO. As such, my installer script (which writes to a config file) can't do any writing. How do I give apache (user: nobody) the ability to write to the file?
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chmod all files (including hidden files) in a directory in Linux (not recursively)

Yesterday I did something stupid which I today realised. I ran: /root# chmod o-rwx * .* This supposed to remove read, write and execute permissions for the world on all files in the current directory (/root). As soon as I did this, screen behaved…
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is it safe to chmod 775/664 with owner www-data:www-data?

To make working with my webserver easiest I am proposing doing something like the following: sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www -R cd /var/www sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \; sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; I have my…
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Apache "No Permission" - 403 forbidden

I've accidentally performed a wrong chown update this morning and now my /var/www permissions are all wrong. I'm unable to access anything anymore, apache will always say I do not have permission to view this page, like: You don't have permission…
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SaltStack: How to work around "file.recurse doesn't preserve permissions"?

How to work around Recursive directory management doesn't preserve permissions? I want to copy all files in (local) /monitoring/files/etc to /etc on the minion. copy_files_in_etc: file.recurse: - source: - salt://monitoring/files/etc …
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Permission Hierarchy possible in OpenSolaris + ZFS + ACLs?

I've been doing some research into OpenSolaris and ZFS for use in a NAS. Thus far I have created the following: /tank/projects /tank/storage /tank/developer /tank/sandbox The total space allocated for tank is 3.4Tb (RAIDZ2). Developers mount is…
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