Re: File Permissions

2008-05-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Insane Boi wrote: Unique question, Pidgin (aka gaim) has some configuration files. I would like to have these configuration files remain untouched/unmodified, but readable. I am running pidgin under a normal user account. Here is what I tried: chmod 004 file.xml sudo chown root:root file.x

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:28:39PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El sáb, 10-11-2007 a las 12:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:34:34PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: ... > > > Anyway, after manually fixing all the permissions I could with your file > > >

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 10-11-2007 a las 12:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:34:34PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El vie, 09-11-2007 a las 09:31 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:55PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > 2007/11

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:34:34PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El vie, 09-11-2007 a las 09:31 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:55PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > 2007/11/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 09-11-2007 a las 09:31 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:55PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > 2007/11/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > >

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:55PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > 2007/11/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I ran 'chmod -R o-rwx .*' in /root and all permissions in /var and > > > /tmp got

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-08 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
2007/11/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I ran 'chmod -R o-rwx .*' in /root and all permissions in /var and > > /tmp got messed up (good luck I cancelled it before it could do more > > damage). I man

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > Hello, > > I ran 'chmod -R o-rwx .*' in /root and all permissions in /var and > /tmp got messed up (good luck I cancelled it before it could do more > damage). I manually fixed some permissions so I could at least have a > working

Re: file permissions

2006-12-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:10:30PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:56:30 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Freddy, all aspects of the tools available, but all users still have execute permissions there. Why is this done? I

Re: file permissions

2006-12-17 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:10:30PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:56:30 -0800 > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Freddy, > > > all aspects of the tools available, but all users still have execute > > permissions there. > > Why is this done? I can't real

Re: file permissions

2006-12-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:02:37 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Freddy, > I beg to differ. From inside a regular user account run > "/sbin/ifconfig -a" and see what you get. By including the absolute > path to the command you bypass the necessity of having the command in >

Re: file permissions

2006-12-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:56:30 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Freddy, all aspects of the tools available, but all users still have execute permissions there. Why is this done? I can't really see a good reason for it. What am I missing? I

Re: file permissions

2006-12-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:56:30 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Freddy, > all aspects of the tools available, but all users still have execute > permissions there. > Why is this done? I can't really see a good reason for it. What am > I missing? I can't answer your quer

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 8/19/05, Niklas Schönberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Purves wrote: > > Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new > > file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, > > or delete the file? > > > > The shared directory is a samba share, and

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-18 Thread Niklas Schönberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Purves wrote: > Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new > file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, > or delete the file? > > The shared directory is a samba share, and will only be accessed

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-18 Thread michael
Quoting Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, or delete the file? The shared directory is a samba share, and will only be accessed through windows, so solving this

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

2005-08-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050818 06:01]: > Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new > file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, > or delete the file? Not sure, but perhaps with "chattr +a "? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://l

Re: File permissions? Poss OT-SOLVED

2004-08-26 Thread John Fleming
There was an Alias of /images to /usr/share/images in httpd.conf. This must not be there by default in the unstable distro. Thanks Jacob. - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File permissions? Poss OT

2004-08-26 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:41:00 -0500 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:01:21 -0500 > "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip - problem with images not displaying on user's website] > > > Have you checked the error logs for apache? They usually provide > >

Re: File permissions? Poss OT

2004-08-26 Thread John Fleming
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:01:21 -0500 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please bear with me - I had a working virtual host on Debian unstable > and Apache 1.3.31 with web files in the user's /home/username/www/ > directory.(name-based virtual hosting). I had some problems and ended > up re

Re: File permissions? Poss OT

2004-08-26 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:01:21 -0500 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please bear with me - I had a working virtual host on Debian unstable > and Apache 1.3.31 with web files in the user's /home/username/www/ > directory.(name-based virtual hosting). I had some problems and ended > up re

RE: file permissions problem

2002-12-10 Thread Mikael Jirari
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 Dec

Re: file permissions with devfsd

2002-11-24 Thread Rob Weir
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

Re: File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

2002-03-20 Thread Alexis Kotte
> "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 as the file's owner? Dave> File permissions acro

Re: File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

2002-03-14 Thread Rich Puhek
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 both > machines or you

Re: File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

2002-03-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
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 (whose name es

Re: File permissions with 2.4 kernel

2002-02-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
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 irritating. > > I think

Re: file permissions umask?

2001-02-21 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: File permissions for /dev/*

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +, Jan Warnking ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 documentation on t

Re: File permissions for /dev/*

2000-11-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
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 documentation on the default file permi

Re: file permissions in /var/log

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Re: File permissions when copying CD's?

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Ross
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

Re: File permissions when copying CD's?

1999-12-03 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
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

Re: File permissions

1999-12-02 Thread Nitebirdz
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

Re: File permissions

1999-11-27 Thread aphro
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

Re: File permissions

1999-11-26 Thread Rolf Schillinger
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

Re: file permissions: setting like another file

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
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

Re: file permissions: setting like another file

1998-11-23 Thread Jason Lunz
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