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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Security-wise file ownership & permission setup for LEMP server to be managed via wp-cli and wordpress dashboard?
I'm on a LEMP VPS with the following setup;
cd /home/$USER/public/myDomain.com # change directory to myDomain.com
chown -R nginx:nginx . # change file ownership
find . -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \; # change permissions…
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Access to file denied when doint cat
So I'm trying to create a user in gerrit using the command : cat /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 29418 webadm@localhost gerrit create-account --group "'Non-Interactive Users'" --ssh-key - jenkins-watcher
so first thing first I logged with…
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Issues with file rights in CentOS
May someone explain me how to manage rights correctly pls? I have a file with these rights:
8 -rw-r--r--+ 1 sntecard sntecard 4669 Sep 18 12:34 index.php
I am accessing this folder by user myuser and trying to modify it. Sure, I can't. Ok, I am…
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chowned root directory recursive
accidently I did "chown -R www-data:www-data /" (I wanted to chown current directory).
Is the only good way now to set the system up again from beginning?
waaaah -.-
Thanks
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Add permissions for a user to folders and files
I have a user jenkins that creates files and folders in (on ubuntu) :
/var/jenkins/workspace/my-project
e.g:
drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 21 16:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 21 16:42 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins…
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FTP user not able to see or access anything?
I am trying to make an FTP account for a user, and it is not working. The user wants to be able to ftp to his sites home directory, and change stuff. I created a user(MEvans) and set the home directory to /var/www/html/domain.co.uk . In terminal,…
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How can I make my public directory writable by nginx and user?
I have my WordPress site newly hosted on a small Linux box with Nginx. Nginx runs as the user www-data just like apache, so I have the entire public_html directory owned by www-data so that WordPress can upload media files, install new plugins,…
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Purpose of -r option in chown
Newbie here. Can someone please explain what it means to do something "recursively", in plain language? I have looked at search results for HOURS without finding anything that simply says what it means in plain English. For example, if I use the…
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Chown results in not being able log in VestaCP
so I needed to chown a folder and I accidently wrote
chown -R admin:admin /
And that chmowned all files for ~5sec then came up an error that it can not chown something and I stopped.
After I noticed I can not login in VestaCP, I changed password…
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Permissions/groups setup
I have setup up a Group that includes a few users (mygroup) then have set the owner of a web directory to be apache and the group to be mygroup.
chown -R apache:mygroup /home/myweb
Then I have set permissions to
chmod -R 764 /home/myweb
The idea…
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What are the proper chown settings for images?
I am testing a piece of software that is working except for some SVG images that are not showing. When I preview them using Firebug in Firefox, it says "Failed to load the given URL," however, when I manually visit the image's URL, it shows just…
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Changing file ownership with chown
I'm currently logged in as root, and I want to switch ownership of files to the xyz user. How can I do that using chown?
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