Summary: This may seem like a stupid newbie question (which I am not), but I haven't really ever had to think about it until now..... When I create a file as t...
Summary: That is because you are trying to set file permissions on a FAT partition...which dosn't support it. You could either use UMSDOS instead (although ...
Summary: hello friends, is it possible to set the permission for a particular user & group the way we do in Win NT/2K. As far as i know we can set permission o...
Summary: thanks for the reply guys here is the details all this happens localy a folder called testfolder a group called group1 (2 users is admin admin1) a...
Summary: Ok I will start off by saying that I am pretty new to linux.. so bear w/ me :) #1: I am setting up this Linux server as a full webserver and an FTP se...
Summary: Hello, I have just installed minix 2.0.0 on my Epson Equity Lt and have created a new group named users (GUI 100) and a new user. Unfortunately t...
Summary: Hi, I have Apache running as user nobody:nbody. My users upload to the web directory using ftp. The files however get created as their defined user an...
Summary: Hello all - I hope you can help. I've got Samba running fine for home directories. I've also made a shared directory, and am having trouble with the p...
Summary: I have SuSE 9.1, and I'm trying to mount my NTFS partition. I can mount it as su, and as root, but I can't change its permissions so that I can access...
Summary: I want to change the user permissions i.e $ touch myfile $ls -l myfile -rw-r--r-- $chmod u=+x myfile here i also want to give the execute prmission t...
Summary: I struggle to get rw permissions under "normal" user accounts on a FAT drive. I automount (using /etc/fstab) the drive at /dev/hda2 in /mnt/fat1 and ...
Summary: Hello, I'm having problems with file/folder permissions on a Mandrake 8.1 Samba server. I have a samba share set up called "workarea". The "prod" grou...
Summary: Permissions are set as UGO. User, Group, Other. So adding the user to the group root will not give that user the same permissions as root. I don't kno...
Summary: Hello Linux Gurus, Quick question. I am running FTP and it works great everywhere. There seems to be an instance, however, when a "good" group accou...
Summary: When I copy files from Linux to Win98 directory, I get the Message "Can't change permissions for file /dir/filename".The copying is other way successf...
Summary: You can use chmod with numeric or symbolic mode. Using chmod with the numeric mode is harder because you have to remember all the number combinations....
Summary: I had the same problem setting up my dial up connection using rh70. I tried to set the permissions on the ttyS0 device to a group called connect and e...
Summary: Linux does have a user database with each user assigned to a certain group. Every group and user have certain permissions that allow or disallow acces...
Summary: If you have the Gnome desktop, the tool you need should be in the System menu under Administration choose Users and Groups. HTH, Ernie Registered ...
Summary: As a regular user, I can run chmod on files and directories I own, but not on other files or directories. That is why you must be root to make the cha...
Summary: Ok. I have the file test.html. I want 4 different people to be able to write to test.html. I only want 6 other people to be able to read test.html. Ho...
Summary: I'm new to NFS, so this may be a simple answer: I'm sharing a directory from Solaris 8 to a Red Hat Linux ES over NFS. I can copy and create files on ...
Summary: The easiest thing would probably to make sure that user (or users) are in a 'group' separate from all other users. Then you have to remove 'other' per...
Summary: Hi, Samba running. Here is the config file... # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to u...
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