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Questions tagged [file-permissions]

Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights for specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or modify the contents of the filesystem.

Permissions on Unix-like systems are managed in three distinct classes. These classes are known as user, group, and others.

Permissions on Windows systems can be granted to users, groups, computers, or other built-in security principals such as SELF or CREATOR OWNER.

Permissions are generally configured in an Access Control List (ACL, pronounced ackle) with each entry in the list being referred to as an Access Control Entry (ACE).

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How to make rsync delete destination directories no longer existing at source?

I have hard drive that I back up with rsync to a network-attached storage. There are some non-empty directories at the destination (the nas) that do not exist on the source anymore. It is not a permission issue. I had a mount issue on the OS. The…
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How to Restore Win Drive Permissions

I've been playing with my C: drive permissions and I have managed to mess them up. Now when I log in nothing appears and I can't launch anything. I tried safe mode and the same thing happens with that. I can't even launch cmd.exe and it says that…
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Shared Hosting folder access to Hosting provider

I've website running on a shared hosting account and I allow users to upload Images and I store them on the server in a folder that I've access to. My concern is whether that folder containing image files is accessible to the Hosting Provider or…
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how to fix folders and files permissions 000

If the folders and files permission all suddenly goes to 000 on a web sever, can it be brought back? I yes, please let me have the script that can be executed to bring the permission back. I have a hosting account and I change 1 folder's(cur)…
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Read a file created by root user on unix system

I have a file created by root user on unix system and the file is assigned to a particular group.All I want to do is read that file by logging in as user which is not root and not a part that particular group and neither have sudo access.Is there…
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Investigate why user has access to a folder

How can I understand why a particular user has access to a particular shared folder? Security tab of the folder contains a long list of groups groups and the user is not a direct member of any of those groups so there must be some intermediary…
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Grant user mkdir()

I have a php script where I use the function mkdir() but I get Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied How can I grant a user permission to this function? Apache/CentOS Update Here's the permission for the folder I'm trying to create…
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Change permissions/ownership of file/directory owned by 33:33 in Linux

I have a directory where I used to make the backup of my owncloud files from Ubuntu. It's owned by user 33 and group 33, which in Ubuntu are the www-data (Apache) user and group. Now I have changed the server's OS to OpenSUSE and the user and group…
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How can I set the default permissions mode on files uploaded via FTP to 775?

I'm using ProFTPD 1.3.1 Server on Linux. Currently when you upload files via FTP the files have the permissions mode of 664. I would like to change this to default files to 775 instead. The aim is to allow users that are in the same group as the…
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CHMOD file and directory permissions changing back

I have a website and I am trying to link an image stored in a directory, however when I change the file permissions to 775 they change back to 644 and the image isn't displaying. It is showing a Error 403 Forbidden error My .htaccess…
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SFTP file download and upload permission

I have folder /sftp/xyz, need to give download and upload permission for 'xyz' folder for user 'abc'. User 'abc' should access only the folder /sftp/xyz. I tried so many things but now the user 'abc' is able to access /home/, /sftp/ also able to…
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restrictions on directory of linux server is not working

I have some files on my Linux Server, which is getting used on front-end. My directory structure is something like this. dir1/ dir1/ file3.pdf dir2/ file1.pdf dir2/ dir1/ file1.pdf file2.pdf …
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php file permission 600 gives me a blank page in localhost

When I set the file permission to 644 for php files, it works. But if I give them 600 then they give me blank pages. And it happens only in localhost, in remote host 600 file permission for php files works just fine. My permission specs: Folder…
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Change existing file type from standard file "-" to directory "d" as shown with Unix ls -l

In summary, if I use ls -l it yields something for a directory like... drwxr-xr-x and the reported error for a directory with files in it, is it shows as a standard file and ls -l yields... -rwxr-xr-x My goal is to find a way to manually change file…
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Permissions and access security for a shared folder on a server

I need to set permissions to a folder for two people. I am not an administrator on the server but I have access to grant and remove permissions to folders. Not even the Server Admin should have access to that folder except for those two users. The…
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