Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I have a php script where I use the function mkdir() but I get Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied How can I grant … Read more
This question already has answers here: FTP and Apache permission issues (3 answers) Closed 6 years ago. I have created a centos instance on digital ocean hosting multiple websites by setting up virtual host, all is working fine, however assigning correct directory permission for each website is bugging me and i could not find any … Read more
A friend of mine gives me a (user) ssh access on an ec2-instance (ubuntu) that he’s got. So, for reason that now I don’t know, in the future I will have need of an open tcp port over the firewall to make listening some sort of service (like http or other). I don’t want to … Read more
I am new to linux so please have patience with me. I set up my centos 6.3 server on a virtual machine, installed many things including httpd and vsftpd. I changed the config to allow only users in the chroot_list and the other settings are as usually recommended on the net. I created a user … Read more
I’d be happy to get an advice about handling system users and ftp users on a Linux server (Ubuntu). Just want to do it right way. I have a sysUser.sysGroup and created virtual ftpUser.ftpGroup for ProFTPD server. Virtual ftp user (ftpUser) and group (ftpGroup) linked to sysUser and sysGroup $ cat /etc/passwd | grep ‘sysUser’ … Read more
I have some sensitive files, that should be accessed only by a small group of users. Currently the files are stored in a folder, on a WinServer 2012 machine, and will be accessed via a mapped location shortcut (using windows explorer). What I want, is to restrict the access to everybody (except the server’s administrators … Read more
how to access file by visudo from non root user , or other option for example when we change user to hdfs and from user hdfs we want to print the file – file.cfg we get Permission denied how to configure the visudo in order to get read access from user – hdfs ( and … Read more
need to create and change existing file and directory such that all directories and executable files(*.sh, *.bat, *.cmd ..) are 750 and regular file are 640 . I need to this in shell and python both. I like to set umask to 027 while default is 022 for existing directory …. can’t change default umask. … Read more
How can I give a user permissions for all folders? So /home, /var etc. Answer To give a user (e.g. bob) read-permission for all folder in the /tmp/myfiles-directory: 1.) install acl: sudo apt-get install acl (after running apt-get update) 2.) give the user “bob” read-permission for eveything in (and including) the /tmp/myfiles-directory: setfacl -m user:bob:r … Read more
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