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chown is a command is used to change the owner and/or group membership of a file or set of files.

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GitLab CI + Docker container and volume file permissions

I'm running a pipeline with GitLab CI, and I've set up a server with a runner, following GitLab's documentation (https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/linux-manually.html, and https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/register/index.html). The runner is set…
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Getting error chown: invalid group: ‘nobody:nogroup’ while setting up an NFS server drive ownership permission

I am following this tutorial to export an NFS share drive. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-nfs-mount-on-ubuntu-16-04#step-2-%E2%80%94-creating-the-share-directories-on-the-host I use centos7 as os. In tutorial,…
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How do I fix this: Error: /usr/local/Cellar is not writable? Why does chown returns "illegal username"?

I was trying to install Nodejs using Homebrew (I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.6) so I wrote in the terminal: brew install node and it returned: Error: /usr/local/Cellar is not writable. You should change the ownership and permissions of…
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setting file ownership with mercurial

I am using mercurial as part of my workflow process and it is working well. I have one niggling problem though. When I pull from my central repository down to my Linux web server in order to make an upgrade, I'm doing it with the "root" user. That…
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How to change file ownership using boost library?

I want to change file ownership using boost library, like chown(). Is there any api for this?
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Is there an R function to change file ownership?

How could I change the ownership of files from R? I suppose I could use system and call chown directly against a string, but I am wondering if there is a better way.
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Unix: command for sudo-mv-chown combo?

I am operating as sudo in a system where I mv a great amount of files and dirs to and fro. Is there a command for the combo? $ sudo -i; # mv hello /home/other; # chown -R other:other /home/other/hello
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Apache/CentOS 7: /var/www/html/ owned by root but created files owned by apache - how do I resolve this?

I have a fresh, unmodified install of Apache on CentOS 7. I notice that when I look at the folder permissions for /var/www/html it and it's content is owned by apache. When a file is created, however, its owner and group is Apache. Though html is…
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UNIX How to copy entire directory (subdirectories and files) from one location to another and retain permissions

I just copied an entire directory structure from one location on my server to another: cp -r /home/abc/public_html/* /home/xyz/public_html/ That worked fine. Except the dirs & files are now owned by root and the group is root as well. How do I…
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GHCi - Haskell Compiler Error - /home/user/.ghci is owned by someone else, IGNORING

While trying to change the ~/.ghci file to my configurations this error appeared when I opened GHCi. GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking…
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Best practices in assigning permissions to web folders

I would like to know what is the best, correct and recommended way of doing chown and chmod to website files and folders. I recently started working on linux and I have been doing it in the site root directory like the following: sudo chown…
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How do I chown to inherit parent directory's owner and group or the current account user

In terminal I know I can chown whatever:whatever .* What I want to do is dynamically set username and group to the current domain owner rather than root. Is there an easy way to do this? Some background: I'm pushing to my server using Git as root…
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Monitor directory and change ownership of files upon creation

I have tried this method but it does not work... inotifywait -mr -e create /opt/freeswitch/storage/ 2>&-| sed 's/ CREATE //g' | while read file; do chown apache.apache $file done From command line inotifywait -mr -e create…
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Dired: how to do chown as superuser?

I'm working on a code I checked from remote repository, where some of it went into that repo having "root" as the file owner. Now I want to move the directory containing the repo to another place, but deleting old files fails under regular user.…
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Phing runs under user with limited permission

I have not used phing before, but would like to use it to automate my deployment process. Currently I log in under myuser, Apache runs under www-data. All my application code is owned by myuser, but other (cache) files are generated by www-data. I…
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