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A file system attribute used mainly for access control to file resources.

Many operating systems utilize the concept of file ownership to identify a specific system user as the owner of a file or directory. Where classes of users may be granted varying privileges for access to a file or directory (typically read, write, execute, or variations of those), the owner will have distinct permissions.

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In python 3 running on Windows, how do I get the owner of a file

Note: I'm working on Python 3.x on Windows. I've been working on this for quite a while, and I've found the solution on UNIX systems to be pretty easy. os.stat("filename").st_uid On Windows this just returns 0 I've found a solution that works…
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PHP Creating folder with the owner as 99

I have a script (run as a cron) that creates a new folder called images on a server and moves images from the root folder to this new folder. Later another function will create thumbnails from these images and places these into another new folder…
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Confused: File ownership changed with setuid special permission flag

File Permission with setuid enabled(rws). File Owner: vaisakh vaisakh@computer:~/me$ ls -l total 4 -rwsr-xr-x 1 vaisakh vaisakh 60 May 3 17:05 vaisakh.sh Switch to an another user var23 vaisakh@computer:~/me$ su var23 Password: Rechecking the…
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How to replace binary file during rpm upgrade without changing permissions

I need to replace the existing binary during rpm upgrade but I do not want to change the permission/ownership which is set already. In my case, after the binary installation (not upgrade), ownership/permissions are set properly by rpm. But after the…
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Can't get File Owner using Google Drive API

Trying to find the owner of a file by getting the permissions for the file, looping through them, and retrieving the user information (specifically the email address) of the permission with the role of "owner". PermissionList filePermissions =…
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Mercurial: How do I find the creator of a file?

ATM I do it this way which is far slow and incorrect: for i in `find -type f`; do echo $i`LANG=C hg log -v $i | grep user | tail -1 | awk '{print " "; print $2}'`; done When someone has moved a file to a new name, yes he is the creator of that…
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Making Git use the correct owner group names when doing a pull

I have setup Git on our production and staging server and it's working well, however upon doing a git pull on the staging server it seemed to set the group owner name to the user I was logged into under SSH, which was root. Is there anyway to get it…
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Check that file is writable by current user in POSIX shell

Current user is $USER. Previously I use: if [ -e "$f" ] && [ `stat -c %U "$f"` != $USER ] \ || [ -e "${f%/*}" ] && [ `stat -c %U "${f%/*}"` != $USER ]; then to detect if file is owned by user (or dir if file is not yet exist). But file can be…
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How to correctly configure ownerships / rights for a Symfony2 website on Debian

I want to manage a Claroline website, (based on Symfony 2). So for my site mysymfony.com installed for user "theclient" 1 - 0 I added theclient to the www-data group : adduser theclient www-data 1 – 1 - modified /etc/hosts : 127.0.0.1 …
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File owner of the file created by windows service

I am developing a java application which entails that the owner of the files that are created by my application is different other than the one who will be using the application. I am contemplating installing this application as a windows service.…
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batch: get the name of the owner of a folder

the only command that i know to get the owner of a folder in a batch script is: dir %foldername% /q this has two problems: it shows in a list all foldername's content, so i've to read only the first row (which contains < DIR > and ".") or you've…
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How to get owners information for sas file in Windows SAS?

Is there a way to find the information about owner of sas file in Windows SAS? I tried the following code But it doesnt give any information about the owner of code. data info; length infoname infoval $300; drop rc fid infonum i close; …
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Missing the File's Owner item

i try to understand how i can show my textfield over the keyboard and do an tutorial. this is an older Version than my SDK 5.1. Now I try to do this : "In Interface Builder, right-click on each Text Field view and connect the delegate outlet to the…
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make: automate changing file permissions with Makefile

I have a directory structure with projects, and I need to make sure that when I copy new files, the directory structure has the correct permissions (basically, as if created with umask 022) and ownership: root:users 755 for directories 644 for…
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AccessDeniedException with Files.setOwner(p, user)

I working with a web project that will be deployed with root, but the files created must be under another owner. I have tried this: String owner = "currentUser"; Path p = Files.createFile(Paths.get("myFile.log")); if (owner != null &&…
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