USB (permissions ?) problem on newly installed Bullseye : usb scanner wont communicate

Hi to Everyone, My old Debian Stretch having crashed after last update, I installed Bullseye. Most things operate OK after re-installing, except so far: 'gphoto2' and my Epson Scanner Perfection v500. I have re-installed the scanner using : epsonscan2_6.7.43.0-1_amd64.deb and

Re: logrotate permissions problem

Hi. On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:27:39 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote on 08/31/2015 01:09 PM: > > >> The solution of this problem should be as simple as: > >> > >> chgrp adm /var/log/polipo/pol* > >> rm -f /var/log/polipo/polipo.log.1.gz > > > > OK; I have done

Re: logrotate permissions problem

D. R. Evans wrote on 08/31/2015 01:09 PM: >> The solution of this problem should be as simple as: >> >> chgrp adm /var/log/polipo/pol* >> rm -f /var/log/polipo/polipo.log.1.gz > > OK; I have done that, and will let you know tomorrow whether the problem has > gone away. > Yep; no notification

Re: logrotate permissions problem

Reco wrote on 08/29/2015 12:17 PM: > > Your /etc/logrotate.d/polipo should contain this line: > > su proxy adm > Yep. [stuff elided] > > The solution of this problem should be as simple as: > > chgrp adm /var/log/polipo/pol* > rm -f /var/log/polipo/polipo.log.1.gz OK; I have done that,

Re: logrotate permissions problem

Hi. On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:43:27 -0600 D. R. Evans doc.ev...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since the upgrade from wheezy to jessie a few days ago, I have been receiving the following every day: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error setting owner of /var/log/polipo/polipo.log.1.gz to uid

Re: Permissions Problem

On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems as the user.

Re: Permissions Problem

On Monday 15 October 2012 13:46:03 Mark Neidorff wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in

Re: Permissions Problem

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: Can you get a Debian package for ecce? According to the Debian package list, the answer is no. (I searched on all versions.) Perhaps wiki.debian.org/Alien could help. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Permissions Problem

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 15:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: Can you get a Debian package for ecce? According to the Debian package list, the answer is no. (I searched on all versions.) Perhaps wiki.debian.org/Alien could help. Regards,

Re: Permissions Problem

Mark Neidorff wrote: You are trying to install a RedHat Enterprise Linux package on Debian. This can be a problem if the user numbers that Debian and Redhat either conflict or if RedHat makes different assumptions about user numbers than Debian does. Can you get a Debian package for ecce?

Re: Permissions Problem

Mark Neidorff wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any

Re: Permissions Problem

On 10/15/2012 09:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 08:46 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: user numbers I suspect the term should be user IDs. If I list my Debian from Arch Linux, it does look like that: [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ id uid=1000(spinymouse) gid=100(users)

Permissions Problem

Debian 6.0.5(64bit)/KDE4.4.5 I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems as the user. However, when I try to run an

HD Permissions Problem

Debian 6.0.5 (64 bit)/KDE 4.4.5 For reasons lost to antiquity, I have 4 HD's on my system. Unfortunately, the installer only found one of them, sda1, where the distribution is installed. Of course, other utilities found all of the drives and I have edited /etc/fstab and / to account for all

Re: HD Permissions Problem

On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 12:23 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have edited /etc/fstab and / to account for all of the drives. I have two problems for which I would like solutions: Problem #1. How do I give users on the system access to the drives? At this point only root has access

Re: `dget --build` permissions problem

Tom Roche Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:59:34 -0400 me@it:/tmp/gdal$ dget --build http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdal/gdal_1.9.0-3.dsc fails at end (after long successful build) with error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo': Permission denied ...

`dget --build` permissions problem

! secmem usage: 1408/1408 bytes in 2/2 blocks of pool 1408/32768 Validation FAILED!! So I'm wondering, how to fix or work around the `dget --build` permissions problem? `dget` seems to have almost completely built gdal-bin, so I'd prefer to just finish that, rather than, e.g., build separately

sshfs via autofs permissions problem

Hi, I'm using 2 Debian Squeeze as web server. On server1 I have a folder of user uploaded data (a Django user media folder to be exact) where everything belongs to www-data and this user can read write. Now on server2 which is a clone that is used over load balancing I am trying to set up sshfs

Re: Samba usershares permissions problem

On 27/05/11 05:18, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/26/11 at 05:34pm, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a fairly simple requirement I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files. I thought that the simplest approach would be

Re: Samba usershares permissions problem

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a fairly simple requirement I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files. I thought that the simplest approach would be using samba on its own,

Re: Samba usershares permissions problem

I had that problem and I solved it following these instructions: - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=60620 On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 14:46, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a fairly simple requirement I am running

Samba usershares permissions problem

I have a fairly simple requirement I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files. I thought that the simplest approach would be using samba on its own, but I then discovered the existance of nautilus-share which should

Re: Samba usershares permissions problem

On 05/26/11 at 05:34pm, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a fairly simple requirement I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files. I thought that the simplest approach would be using samba on its own, but I then

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

On Jo, 03 mar 11, 21:29:46, AG wrote: Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user account needs to be manually added to. Is this an issue between balancing convenience and security or is this something that is counter-intuitive from the userland experience? AFAIK

mounting and/or permissions problem

When I try to mount some things (not all - e.g. I can mount one DVDRW drive, but not the second in the same machine and with the same user and I cannot mount the SD card from the camera; Let alone the camera!) I get the following error message: Rejected send message, 3 matched rules;

SOLVED (I think) Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

On 3 March 2011 14:35, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to mount some things (not all - e.g. I can mount one DVDRW drive, but not the second in the same machine and with the same user and I cannot mount the SD card from the camera;  Let alone the camera!) I get the following

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) I have googled the error message, but got no hits: Your search - Rejected .. ”/usr/sbin/hald “)) - did not match any documents. You googled for the wrong text excerpt ;-)

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:28:44 Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: I would have tried adding the users to the relevant group if I knew which the relevant group was! (...) Not sure if this will help, but on lenny (and GNOME) my user is member of:

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

On 03/03/11 20:59, Lisi wrote: snip I shall be visiting the computer concerned again in a couple of weeks' time. I'll add user to some more groups then. Lisi Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user account needs to be manually added to. Is this an issue

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

Hi Lisi, have a look at ls -l /dev/cdrom to mount /dev/cdrom you need r-x permissions or maybe even rwx, but w is going to be pretty useless... Also, /etc/udev/rules.d/ contains rules which device the permissions of for instance your cdrom,cdrw,sdcard ed But google a udev manual, itś too

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:29:46 +, AG wrote: On 03/03/11 20:59, Lisi wrote: snip I shall be visiting the computer concerned again in a couple of weeks' time. I'll add user to some more groups then. Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user account needs to

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* - SOLVED

On 24 Jan 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry to follow-up to myself but I solved the problem simply by reinstalling cron. I don't know what had happened previously but anyway it's now working correctly. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian

crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

I get an error when running crontab as user: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied Googling shows a few people with a similar problem but either no solution or one that doesn't work here (crontab not having setguid or not in the crontab group). The permissions are: drwx-wx--T 2 root

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

Anthony Campbell wrote: I get an error when running crontab as user: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied Googling shows a few people with a similar problem but either no solution or one that doesn't work here (crontab not having setguid or not in the crontab group). The permissions

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:00:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied The crontabs directory should be owned by root:crontab, not root:root. I don't have any such file in /tmp. Nor should you. /usr/bin/crontab works like sudoedit, and uses temp

Re: crontab command and permissions problem

When the date was Tuesday 10 February 2009, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote: I'm having a problem trying to execute the crontab command from a perl script. When i call this command from the SNMP system, i get this: must be privileged to use -u the procedure is... 1. i create a cron file for a

crontab command and permissions problem

Hi, I'm having a problem trying to execute the crontab command from a perl script. I'm writing to this list cause the same set up works in another distro. Now i'm moving to Debian for convenience, but I'm having this problem i can't fix. The thing is... I'm using SNMP to automatize some

Entropy gathering module - permissions problem

the above command using sudo works OK so it's obviously a permissions problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125240 2006-12-04 11:31 /usr/bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/urandom crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 2008-01-01 14:32 /dev/urandom This is really

Curious file-permissions problem

Hi, I wonder if someone can throw some light on this file-permissions issue please? It came to light as rsync complained: rsync: failed to set times on /var/www/mirror/foo/.: Operation not permitted (1) An strace revealed the failure is effectively a result of: cd /var/www/mirror/foo; touch -m

Jabberd/testing: xdb_file permissions problem

Hi all - I run our dept. jabber server, on a mixed woody/testing server. (I can't take it up to sarge just yet for mysql-related reasons) Recently, I've started seeing these messages in /var/log/jabber/error.log for valid user ids: - xdb_file failed to open file

Re: cdrecord permissions problem in 2.6.8

There was a problem in 2.6.8 kernel where a normal user could not burn CD's using cdrecord. I experienced that problem and installed 2.6.7, which did not suffer that problem. I am wondering, is that problem fixed now? I am planning to compile the 2.6.8 kernel source package from Debian.

cdrecord permissions problem in 2.6.8

There was a problem in 2.6.8 kernel where a normal user could not burn CD's using cdrecord. I experienced that problem and installed 2.6.7, which did not suffer that problem. I am wondering, is that problem fixed now? I am planning to compile the 2.6.8 kernel source package from Debian.

Re: cdrecord permissions problem in 2.6.8

Hello H. S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There was a problem in 2.6.8 kernel where a normal user could not burn CD's using cdrecord. I experienced that problem and installed 2.6.7, which did not suffer that problem. I am wondering, is that problem fixed now? I am planning to compile the 2.6.8

Re: cdrecord permissions problem in 2.6.8

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 23:02 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello H. S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There was a problem in 2.6.8 kernel where a normal user could not burn CD's using cdrecord. I experienced that problem and installed 2.6.7, which did not suffer that problem. I am

Re: X/GNOME starts just a bit, then dies; file permissions problem?

Hello. Shot: After upgrading X to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 yesterday on my workstation (Radeon 7500) I can no longer get back to GNOME It seems something must've changed the ~/.ICEauthority ownership to root:root and GNOME couldn't read it. After chmodding the file back to shot:shot everything works ok

X/GNOME starts just a bit, then dies; file permissions problem?

Hello. After upgrading X to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 yesterday on my workstation (Radeon 7500) I can no longer get back to GNOME - when I try to `startx` I see the usual, dotted gray X background with the black X cursor for a while and then I'm dropped back to console. dmesg seems to be appended with

Please help with permissions problem

Whenever I install a new Debian Woody system, create a normal user account, then log in as that user, some X-based (and maybe some non-X, but I don't recall right now) programs work fine, while others require sudo access. One example is Mozilla via apt-get. I discovered kword works fine. I

Re: Please help with permissions problem

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 06:24, Scott Ehrlich wrote: What am I missing? you're missing some important information...what are the permissions on /home/scott/.ICEauthority ? $ ls -l ~/.ICEauthority the permissions on mine are 600: -rw---1 daviddavid 930 Jan 31 08:06

Re: Please help with permissions problem

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 06:24, Scott Ehrlich wrote: What am I missing? you're missing some important information...what are the permissions on /home/scott/.ICEauthority ? $ ls -l ~/.ICEauthority the permissions on mine are 600: -rw---1

Re: Please help with permissions problem

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:02, Scott Ehrlich wrote: Here are some of my permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la .ICEauthority -rw---1 root root 1102 Jan 31 06:19 .ICEauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ This would certainly be a good explanation why a program that runs with

Permissions problem

Hi all and excuse my noobitis, but I haven't found the answer to this anywhere and it's time for bed. I'm trying to set up IP masquerading as described at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/. This involves creating and saving a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4, which I'm

Re: Permissions problem

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:16:38AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all and excuse my noobitis, but I haven't found the answer to this anywhere and it's time for bed. I'm trying to set up IP masquerading as described at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/. This involves creating

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added

Re: FW: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

/highstream.net: Permission denied I know that this is a permissions problem, now, But I don't know how to fix it. I have tried a chmod ug +x on the file 'highstream.net but that didn't work. I can't imagine that I need to change permissions or owner for the whole file listing. What is the answer

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

Hope I've got this right. cr and got this response from internet dialer/kppp: Sep 3023:00:23 deblnx ppd(1626): Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission denied I know that this is a permissions problem, now, But I don't know how to fix it. I have tried

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

Hello J Y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Quoting cr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm no expert at all, but for what it's worth, my file /etc/ppp/peers/orcon is as follows: -rw-r-1 root dip 580 Oct 1 10:28 orcon (I didn't set any of that specially, it was just what the sample

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

Hope I've got this right. cr and got this response from internet dialer/kppp: Sep 3023:00:23 deblnx ppd(1626): Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission denied I know that this is a permissions problem, now, But I don't know how to fix

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

J Y writes: Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp. Use pon to start the connection and poff to stop it. If you require a GUI install gpppon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. I also uncommented debug in /etc/ppp/ttyS4 options. That's my

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

Sorry John I some how sent this 1st message toy ou instead of to the list. I only realized it when the post didn't appear. My apologies. Quoting John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: J Y writes: Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas.

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

Hello J Y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in /etc/ppp/options I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure I was in the ppp group-I am. My Debian system does

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

denied I know that this is a permissions problem, now, But I don't know how to fix it. I have tried a chmod ug +x on the file 'highstream.net but that didn't work. I can't imagine that I need to change permissions or owner for the whole file listing. What is the answer to this please? Thanks

permissions problem

and got this response from internet dialer/kppp: Sep 3023:00:23 deblnx ppd(1626): Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission denied I know that this is a permissions problem, now, But I don't know how to fix it. I have tried a chmod ug +x on the file

Sendmail/AMaViS Permissions Problem im Queue Verzeichnis

Hallo da draußen! Ich habe ein kleines Problem mit Sendmail und AMaVis. Ich habe Sendmail 8.12.9-5 und AMaVis-new (20030616p3-1) installiert. An- und für sich funktioniert das mit der Milter Funktion von Sendmail wunderbar. Aber wenn ein Virus gefunden wurde, soll ja eine Nachricht an den Admin,

RE: Sendmail/AMaViS Permissions Problem im Queue Verzeichnis

hi, |Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:22 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Sendmail/AMaViS Permissions Problem im Queue Verzeichnis |Wobei die Queue Verzeichnisse folgende Rechte haben: |drwxr-s---2 root smmsp 20480 2003-09-18 19:05 mqueue |drwxrws---2 smmspsmmsp

Re: automount permissions problem

Shawn Lamson wrote: On Sun, July 27 at 12:51 AM EDT Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you know that being in the disk group as a user can be a severe security risk.It allows you direct read/write access to all your IDE and SCSI hard disk (for example with dd). If you are in group

automount permissions problem

Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the usb-storage module, and copy files off the media. The devices look like scsi disk drives,

Re: automount permissions problem

On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the usb-storage module,

Re: automount permissions problem

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 18:06, Shawn Lamson wrote: On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i use this type or entry in fstab /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfat

Re: automount permissions problem

Hello Shawn Lamson wrote: On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [AutoFS problem] I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i use this type or entry in fstab /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfatdefaults,gid=6,umask=002

Re: automount permissions problem

On Sun, July 27 at 12:51 AM EDT Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Lamson wrote: On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [AutoFS problem] I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i use this type or entry in fstab

file permissions problem

I have two accounts on my machine (which is a simple home machine that no one else uses, except for my wife logging in to retrieve her email). I have set the permissions on one of the accounts to rwx--x--x (because my local apache needs execute permission to access files in this account, as I

RE: file permissions problem

Title: RE: file permissions problem Something is changing your permissions and I don't know what so try to investigate on that. But you may want to look at the attrib command as well Cheers -Original Message- From: Richard Kimber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 December

cron permissions problem

I've recently installed Woody on a couple of systems (one new-ish laptop, another dinosaur desktop) and upgraded a few things to testing/unstable, and noticed that cron doesn't work. In auth.log I see: Aug 29 17:10:01 joehill cron(pam_unix)[3550]: session opened for user news by (uid=0) Aug 29

gatos permissions problem (xatitv)

Hello. I have a problem, in that I can only run the xatitv program from gatos as root. If I run it as a normal user, I get an error messages saying something about not being able to access /dev/mem. I've tried adding my user to all the groups that seemed relevant, but to no avail. It seems

cgi permissions problem: zip and delete

I've written a perl cgi that zips directories of files placed on the server over netatalk (file sharing for macs). As the users login as guests to the mac fileshare, the owners of the directories I want to zip (and then delete the originals) is nobody. The owner of the cgi process is www-data.

smail permissions problem

I have two computers with Debian stable up to date version and smail. One works fine, but the other gives the following error message in the smail logfile whenever mail is received. What file is the output file that it can't open? Working on the assumption that it was the mail file

Apache-debian file permissions problem

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