understand it).
However, periodically something resets the permissions to rwx --- --- and
I cannot access the local web pages. Sometimes this happens within a few
minutes of my setting the permissions.
What do I need to do to make my file permissions permanent? And what is it
that makes the changes
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:36:32PM -0800, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> I'm running Debian 3.0 with custom Linux 2.4.19 kernel.
>
> I added this to /etc/devf/perms file:
> REGISTER ^scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/generic$ PERMISSIONS root.cdrom
> 0660
>
> Still, whenever I reboot the system, the gener
I'm running Debian 3.0 with custom Linux 2.4.19 kernel.
I added this to /etc/devf/perms file:
REGISTER ^scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/generic$ PERMISSIONS root.cdrom
0660
Still, whenever I reboot the system, the generic device gets reset
to the default permission (root.root 0600), and I have to ma
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:54:43PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >The info documentation for ls says this:
> >
> >&pi0;s'
> > If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable
> > bit are both set.
> >
> >&pi0;S'
> > If the
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> The info documentation for ls says this:
>
> &pi0;s'
> If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable
> bit are both set.
>
> &pi0;S'
> If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding
> executable bit
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:25:30PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote:
> I would grately appreciate some help in understanding
> file permissions.
> The first one is the lower and uppercase 's' in:
>
> drwxr-sr-x ?? 2 rland ?? rland ?? ? ? 4096 Jun? 4 11:43 files
> dr
I would grately appreciate some help in understanding
file permissions.
The first one is the lower and uppercase 's' in:
drwxr-sr-x 2 rland rland 4096 Jun 4 11:43 files
drwx--S--- 2 rland rland 4096 Sep 27 2001 nsmail
Then, some file permission strings
Well, basically what I learned today, is that web file permissions are
usually handled by the FTP client, which I am finding out is a problem
with certain FTP utils like Dreamweaver for instance, because for some
reason you have to download the Exchange Utilties which cost more $$ to
get the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain
>user folder inside the /var/www/ folder.
>
>I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem
>is that whenever I upload files,
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.36 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > i explictly grant permissions on demand and after some checks. i dont
> > give everyone access to a specific resource. so for security reasons the
> > exe-permissions should used really carefully. its like a opt-in into my
> > "security realm"
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.36 schrieb Debian User:
> Ok, I am learning this umask util. I'm confused, if you set the umask,
> is that for any new file created on the linux system, or just the files
> in the paticular directory that the umask command was run in?
>
> This isn't listed on the man
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:36:17PM -0700, Debian User wrote:
> Ok, I am learning this umask util. I'm confused, if you set the umask,
> is that for any new file created on the linux system, or just the files
> in the paticular directory that the umask command was run in?
umask affects only the
Gottfried Szing wrote:
>Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson:
>
>
>>On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
>>
>>
>>>and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask
>>>functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:26:42PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
> Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > I can't think of a situation where it's dangerous to grant execute
> > permission, unless the executable is set-id. If you can read the file
> > then you can always copy it off
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 22.05 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
> > and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask
> > functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by
> > default.
>
> I can't think of a si
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:54:14PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
> and for setting default permissions you can also consult the umask
> functionallity. but i think this is very dangerous to turn x on by
> default.
I can't think of a situation where it's dangerous to grant execute
permission, unle
Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 21.34 schrieb Debian User:
> I set up a Web Server here on my Debian Box.
>
> Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain
> user folder inside the /var/www/ folder.
>
> I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem
>
I set up a Web Server here on my Debian Box.
Question, is there any way to set a default file permission on a certain
user folder inside the /var/www/ folder.
I want to setup accounts for users to upload web files, but the problem
is that whenever I upload files, the files always default to re
>
> Basically, Craig got it right, and I am guessing his past experience had
> something to do with this :-}. If the file permissions get screwed up on
> a Debian system, is it possible to analyze/correct them?
I'm not sure if debians package system will natively check file
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:26:44PM -0700, craigw wrote:
> On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > begin Andy Saxena quotation:
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
> > > th
;
find /path/2files/ -type f -exec chmod 664 "{}" ";"
this is 4 web. change user.group to whatever u want.
justin
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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:27 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Andy Saxena
Subject: Re: V
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> begin Andy Saxena quotation:
> >
> > I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
> > the files installed by debian packages.
>
> Depends; what do you mean by "verify"
begin Andy Saxena quotation:
>
> I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
> the files installed by debian packages.
Depends; what do you mean by "verify"?
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Hi,
I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
the files installed by debian packages.
Thanks,
Andy
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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:20:29PM +0100, Alexis Kotte
Dave> wrote:
>> movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte
Dave> What does `ls -l /var/mail/kotte` show a
Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:20:29PM +0100, Alexis Kotte wrote:
> > movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte
>
> What does `ls -l /var/mail/kotte` show as the file's owner? File
> permissions across NFS only work if your UID is the same
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:20:29PM +0100, Alexis Kotte wrote:
> movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte
What does `ls -l /var/mail/kotte` show as the file's owner? File
permissions across NFS only work if your UID is the same on both
machines or you run an additional daemon (wh
Hi,
On my Woody box I mount /var/mail through nfs from a file server.
However, I can not get hold of my mail using Emacs (21.1).
When I call
/usr/lib/emacs/21.1/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail -p /var/mail/kotte
/tmp/dest
the response is
movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:39:47PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I mount a filesystem (Woody) without file permissions (like
> vfat, iso9660), all files are marked as executable -- this is quite
> annoying because then the syntax highlighting on the console is irritatin
Hi,
Whenever I mount a filesystem (Woody) without file permissions (like
vfat, iso9660), all files are marked as executable -- this is quite
annoying because then the syntax highlighting on the console is irritating.
I think this is caused by the new kernel. When I boot the same system
Hi,
"s" is the setuid and/or setgid permission: setuid in the user field,
setgid in the group field.
On files, setuid/setgid allow the group/user ID of the process
started when invoking an executable file to be set to the
group/user ID owning the file, respectively.
Setting the setgid bit on a
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:42:37PM +, Aniartia wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> > hey,
> >
> > what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ??
> >
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home
> > drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:
staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home
>
> I thought s = execute with SUID
> And this is the point where I get told I'm totaly wrong! ;)
Straight from the info page for "chmod->File Permissions":
[sni
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> hey,
>
> what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ??
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home
> drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home
I thought s = execute with SUID
And this is the point where I
hey,
what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ??
([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home
drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home
thanks for any info
=)
Sunny Dubey
I have managed to clobber my /var directory with a paranoid `chmod'
command. I've reset everything with `chmod -R 777 /var' and am waiting
for 6:30 am EDT to see if `cron' does the crash'n'burn. Any suggestions
? I'd be quite thankful...g.b...
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:28:21PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Hi all...
> I've been working all day on this one and can't figure it out
> maybe you can help...
>
> say I have a folder like so..
> /var/www/
>
> I want to set the permissions so that the "owner" and "group" have
> read
Hi all...
I've been working all day on this one and can't figure it out
maybe you can help...
say I have a folder like so..
/var/www/
I want to set the permissions so that the "owner" and "group" have
read, write, execute rights to /var/www (all the time)
I want "other" to just have rea
* Andrew Gronosky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001228 20:53]:
>
> I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and
> /dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to special groups (audio and lp,
> respectively), and most importantly are *not* world-writeable.
>
> Is there an important reason
Andrew Gronosky wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been running Debian for a while, but only recently did I get
> serious about configuring all my peripherals (sound card, printer,
> etc.).
>
> I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and
> /dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to s
Hi,
I've been running Debian for a while, but only recently did I get
serious about configuring all my peripherals (sound card, printer,
etc.).
I noticed that some important device files- for example, /dev/dsp and
/dev/lp0 - are owned by root, belong to special groups (audio and lp,
respectively)
Hi everybody,
this is just to say a big thank you to everybody who helped me repairing
my device files. Everything works fine again now.
Jan
nd any documentation on the default file permissions
> for device files...
$ man MAKEDEV
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +, Jan Warnking wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device
> files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial
> state? I didn't find any documentat
Hi everybody,
Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device
files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial
state? I didn't find any documentation on the default file permissions
for device files...
For now, I took the permissions from m
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:29:38AM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> In my /home, some directories have drwxrwxr-x, and some have
> drwxr-sr-x. Which (if any) is correct?
Owner: RWX
Group: R (usually)
World: Your option. Frequently "R".
...in general, you shouldn't let other users write to your h
In my /home, some directories have drwxrwxr-x, and some have
drwxr-sr-x. Which (if any) is correct?
Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.
/Patrik Magnusson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Hi all
>
> What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log?
> Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed
> unexpectedly / unintendedly?
>
> I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed som
Hi all
What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log?
Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed
unexpectedly / unintendedly?
I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions
with my logrotate.conf.
This is what I have currently:
# ls
On 03-Dec-1999, Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted
> read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this
> image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this
> behaviour? I'm using gtoast
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:12:23AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted
> read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this
> image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this
> behaviour? I'm using
Hi,
When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted
read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this
image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this
behaviour? I'm using gtoaster, cdrecord, ...
Any good ideas, perhaps this is an FAQ?
Svante Sig
Antonio,
I got some links that may help you:
http://olympic.atmos.colostate.edu/basic_unix.html
http://php.iupui.edu/~kcmcreyn/L401/Unix/file_perm.html
http://menaik.cs.ualberta.ca/doc/Talks/Unix/file_permissions.html
http://www.msoe.edu/personal/workshop/9603/adv/unix/permissions.html
setting the sgid bit (that +s you see) makes sure all files in that
directory are created with ownership of that group. debian uses that in a
lot of places.
nate
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
arodri >While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission
arodri >se
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission
> settings such as:
> drwx--S---
> drwxr-sr-x
>
> I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can
> you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great
While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission
settings such as:
drwx--S---
drwxr-sr-x
I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can
you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great if in the little
docs we could see everything possible at once
Quoting Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> for an half hour I had done this with my Workstation and 700 MBytes...
> (asked in [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> I have used this:
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
> cp -fpR /usr/src/* /mnt
> umount /mnt
> rm -fR /usr/src/*
> rm -fR /usr/src/.*
Isn't that one of
Quoting David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I've created/moved my /usr/src to its own partition. However, I've noticed a
> difference in the permissions between the old /usr/src (/usr/oldsrc) and the
> new one, /usr/src.
>
> drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc
> drwxr
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
erbens >
erbens >does anyone know the exact rational for the root.staff 2775
erbens >permissions on /usr/local? I suppose it could theoretically be used
erbens >to allow a privileged user to do make installs on non packaged
erbens >software and have it
On 14/11/99 Kevin Heath wrote:
Could someone please remind us exactly what setgid on directories
does? I think it causes any file created in that directory to
automatically have its group ownership, but I'm not certain.
yup, any file/directory created in a setgid directory inherits the
group
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 12:52:28PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc
> drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Nov 14 12:33 src
>
> Could someone explain the difference? I tried setting chmod g=+r+w+s
> /usr/src, but that apparently d
MK>I've created/moved my /usr/src to its own partition. However, I've
noticed a
MK>difference in the permissions between the old /usr/src (/usr/oldsrc) and
the
MK>new one, /usr/src.
MK>
MK>drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc
MK>drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 N
I've created/moved my /usr/src to its own partition. However, I've noticed a
difference in the permissions between the old /usr/src (/usr/oldsrc) and the
new one, /usr/src.
drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Nov 14 12:33 src
C
sticky bit on
files doesn't mean much anymore, but on directories, it affects how
file permissions are interpreted in the directory.
When you do an "ls -l", it modifies the display for the execute bits
for the user/group/other to show the suid/sgid/sticky bit. For
instance, the
al Message -
From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian-user
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: "S" file permissions
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jim B wrote:
>
> > (Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.)
> >
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jim B wrote:
> (Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.)
>
> Can someone explain what this execute bit means?
>
> IOW, what is the difference between "s" (suid) and "S" (?)?
>
> I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV
> standard. Someone
(Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.)
Can someone explain what this execute bit means?
IOW, what is the difference between "s" (suid) and "S" (?)?
I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV
standard. Someone else said it's "super-suid" or suid without eXecut
Using slink, apache, proftpd. When I ftp files to my /var/www directory,
they get the default file permissions of:
-rw-r-
I would like them to be:
-rw-r--r--
How do I change this as default? Is it something in the proftpd package?
Apache? Debian? The specific user?
Thanks,
Brian
Hello,
> I LOOK FOR A COMMAND THAT SETS THE PERMISSIONS OF ONE FILE LIKE THE
> PERMISSIONS
> OF ANOTHER FILE.
Oh please don't shout.
> This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file
> like another file,
> touch -r file-template file-target
OK, I did apropos m
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 5:39PM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote:
> This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file
> like another file,
> touch -r file-template file-target
>
> Of course, one can go through machinations like
>cp -p file-template file-target
>cp
same file permissions, but not necessarily the same file
contents.
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Hello all,
does anyone know how to get apache to read userfiles
I.E.
/home/user/www
Without having to chmod on them first?
Its really a pain in the butt to have to go in and
chmod the files to allow apache to access them every
time you update the files..
Your all knowing wisdom is appreciated.
Now and then when I try to do 'plog'--always under same login--I
am greeted with 'tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied'.
If this happened always or never it would make much more sense,
but *sometimes*?
This is for "the deep ones".
Thanks.
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While configuring my system recently, I managed to make my entire /var and
subdirectories owned by root. Does anybody know the easiest way to fix
this? Is there a list available of what the ownerships and file
permissions for a standard distribution should look like? (I know the
Contents files on
The lyx auxiliary directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 all have their permissions
set for owner and group access only in lyx_0.10.3-1.deb. They need to made
"other" readable for lyx to work properly.
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