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Created a new user in the same group as another user, but new user cannot access directory
I am trying to create a new user in Linux, such that the new user can access (read) log files that were created by another, previously-existing user (the "oracle" user). The log files are ...
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Why are some symlinks unreadable when their target is readable?
On Linux, I'm looking at /proc/1/cwd. This symlink is not readable as a normal user: $ ls /proc/1/cwd ls: cannot access '/proc/1/cwd': Permission denied But /proc/1 is accessible: $ ls /proc/1 <...
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Am I understanding the implication of knowing a user ID of a file on the accessibility of that file on other filesystems correctly?
In Classic Shell Scripting from O'Reilly, Arnold Robbins and Nelson H.F. Beebe write the follwing, If a filesystem with user smith attached to user ID 100 were mounted on, or imported to, a ...
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What are the rules that determine file permissions of b after I do cp /path/to/a /p/t/b, depending on file permissions of /path/to/a and all dirs?
In Classic Shell Scripting from O'Reilly, Arnold Robbins and Nelson H.F. Beebe write the follwing example: $ umask 023 $ rm -f foo $ cp /bin/pwd foo $ ls -l /bin/pwd foo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ...
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Possible to apply sticky bit effects to a group rather than user?
I've been reading up on the "sticky bit" and it's almost what i want… but not quite. Background I'm managing a small JupyterHub instance with three courses and an instructor for each course. ...
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Linux + is it possible to config super user in sudoers file in order to enable super user run any other script from other ordinary user [duplicate]
I gives user king to be almost super user , and I set the following in /etc/sudoers king ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL additionally we have other user that called – lincoin ( simple user ) now I ...
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changed ownership on folders by user that defined in sudoers file
I have the following simple script that changed ownership on folders more hola_config.sh #!/bin/bash chown -R hola:pola /home/darna chmod -R 775 /home/darna in /etc/sudoers I added the following ( ...
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Linux ls shows some abnormal files with “?” No message of desired type
Help me understand the following problem - there is software that interacts with files in XML format. The software is wrapped in a docker container. When the software works with the file, the error &...
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Linux permissions for a user not logged in sudoers
There is a server to which I have access (login and password). Logging in as this user on this server it is found that my user is not logged into sudoers. No additional information is available, I ...
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Uninstalled package but command remained usable as user (command not found with sudo)
I recently installed silversearcher-ag with sudo and uninstalled it as it required sudo to run the command every single time. The command I used to install and uninstall this package respectively: # ...
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write permissions for group
On a samba share on Linux, I want to have a directory that can be written to by different users (members of a group called 'users'). Subdirectories those users create also have to be writeable by ...
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SGID in File Permissions
the following are two scenarios to let you know how i understand the problem and the SGID: Scenario 1: user A is part of the group G. group G has full privileges to 2 files-its the group owner of ...
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Command works when path is entered manually, but not when $PATH is used
I installed Golang into a custom folder under $HOME called .go/exec. After the installation, it put the binary under $HOME/.go/exec/go. So I updated $PATH to contain this directory: $HOME/.go/exec:$...
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MySQL binlogs on cifs share getting OS errno 13 - Permission denied
I am creating a Rocky Linux 9 server to replace a CentOS 7 server. The original CentOS 7 server mounts a Windows shared directory where it stores the binlogs. When I try to duplicate this for the ...
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Sticky bit on directory seems to prevent modification of files in it. Peculiarity of the distro or norm? [duplicate]
Recently I've noted I cannot edit file owned by another account in /tmp as ordinary user account. By trial and error seems it is due to sticky bit on /tmp. But man page of chmod and https://en....
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