chown is a command is used to change the owner and/or group membership of a file or set of files.
Questions tagged [chown]
374 questions
-1
votes
1 answer
Linux - QNAP - Can't change owner of folder
I have logged into the QNAP using ssh.
I am trying to change the owner of the a folder.
Here is what I am doing.
[/share/Users] # chown joe.dove JoeDove
And this is the response I get.
chown: unknown group name: dove
How do I get around this?
Tim Rideyourbike
- 667
- 1
- 6
- 14
-1
votes
1 answer
Accidental change of ownership of some root directories in Ubuntu 14.04
(Accidental) Action
Hi, I am not very well versed in Linux but using Ubuntu for more than a year.
Couple of days back I accidentally changed the ownership of my root folder while changing ownership of another non-root directory. I am not sure but as…
Maax
- 33
- 1
- 8
-1
votes
2 answers
Centos change directory permissions
Morning all,
I'm trying to give apache the write access to a particular folder for PHPDOCx.
[root@patdraft word2]# ll
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 718 May 15 2014 generate.php
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 13 09:20 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0…
Harry Torry
- 373
- 5
- 25
-1
votes
1 answer
Directory has permissions drw-r--r-- 3 root root ("others" should be able to read it) but I can't cd to it as my user. Why?
Isn't this supposed to work? I changed the ownership to that of my user but it still says "Permission denied".
pldimitrov
- 1,597
- 2
- 16
- 21
-1
votes
1 answer
how to change owner of sudoer file in centos that has been mistakenly changed to nonexisting user
i mistakenly changed ownership of /etc/sudoers file to a non-existing user, and now i can't revert it back nor do anything about it.
how can i force it to change the owner to root?
-r--r----- 1 755 1417 Dec 12 12:39 sudoers
Prod Tester
- 253
- 2
- 5
- 16
-1
votes
1 answer
JNA with strings for chown instead of int?
Hi i need to change the user/group of certain Files through JAVA. I have seen roughly the same Posix example evrywhere.
public interface POSIX extends Library {
public int chmod(String filename, int mode);
public int chown(String filename,…
user2548720
- 109
- 2
- 2
- 7
-2
votes
2 answers
Change owner and group of all files and directories
I tried changing the owner and group of all files and directories Vincent and staff respectively in my terminal but its not working.
I tried using
chown -R Vincent:staff*...
-2
votes
1 answer
I change file permitions of root
I didn't check that I'm at root and I ran
chown www-data:www-data -R *
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
I don't have backup thats why I cant restore
all my website's goes 503 :(
The last thing that I saw…
MoriEdan
- 1
- 3
-2
votes
1 answer
Can not connect to SSH Server Google Compute Engine After change chown main folder
I can not connected to my server linux ubuntu who at Google Cloud Compute Engine as root.
Alghi Fari
- 440
- 3
- 12
-2
votes
1 answer
about /etc/fstab and chown
I have mounted /dev/sdb2 to /base in /etc/fstab, like this:
/dev/sda1 /base ntfs defaults,user,errors=remount-ro 0 0
then /base like this:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29696 Oct 19 00:11 Mac-OS-Lion(Docky).tar*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root …
nova
- 11
- 2
-3
votes
2 answers
Unable to chown although user exists
I am unable to "chown" to username from UID.
For example:
123456789 123456789 jdoe
--------------------------------------
chown jdoe:jdoe jdoe
I get:
chown:invalid jdoe 'jdoe:jdoe'
but 'jdoe' exists.
Mervyn Clarke
- 3
- 1
- 3
-3
votes
4 answers
How to delete a file whose owner is set to 777 by mistake on linux
Tried with a few things I could think of without success. Ideas? Thanks.
Yvonne
- 153
- 1
- 1
- 3
-4
votes
1 answer
chown: invalid user: ‘+x’
some_file.py:
#! /usr/bin/python
print("Hello World!")
On terminal:
sudo chown +x some_file.py
chown: invalid user: ‘+x’
I want to make the file executable.
Pushp Vashisht
- 874
- 3
- 9
- 17
-4
votes
3 answers
I can view my nodejs code in the browser. I want to prevent this
i can hit the url like
localhost/foodbucket/app.js
and see everything.
I want to prevent this.
var config = require('./config/config.js');
var app = require('express')();
var http = require('http').Server(app);
var mysql = require('mysql');
var pool…
Zain Ul Abideen
- 41
- 1
- 1
- 5