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“Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible” / Apache on CentOS 6

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve got a brand new CentOS 6 installation, which has a symlink in the document root to my development files:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags apache-httpd, centos, permissions Leave a comment

Difference between sudo user and root user

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

The /etc/sudoers file lists which users can do what with the sudo command The root user creates and modifies the /etc/sudoers file. This concept is difficult for me to understand. If all users having sudo privilage belong to sudoers group, then all of them can become root by giving the sudo su command. Then who … Read more

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags access-control, permissions, root, sudo, users Leave a comment

How to grant non-root user access to device files

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I have device file that appears in /dev when a specific board is plugged in. The read and write operations to it work just fine, but in order to open the device file the program needs to be executed with root priveledges. Is there any way I can all a non-root user to open this one specific device file without having to use sudo?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags devices, linux, permissions, users Leave a comment

setting ‘x’ (executable) bit using ACL

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I can’t manage to set x bit to created file.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags acl, permissions, suse Leave a comment

Unable to read file although member of group with read permissions

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

How is it possible I am not able to read the AS file below?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags permissions Leave a comment

Uppercase S in permissions of a folder

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

What does the letter S mean below? The file in question is a folder.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags permissions Leave a comment

How to recursively remove execute permissions from files without touching folders?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I made a backup to an NTFS drive, and well, this backup really proved necessary. However, the NTFS drive messed up permissions. I’d like to restore them to normal w/o manually fixing each and every file.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags executable, permissions, recursive Leave a comment

Back up and restore file permissions

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

Is there a way to back up and restore file ownership and permissions (the things that can be changed with chown and chmod)?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags acl, backup, files, permissions Leave a comment

bash: /dev/stderr: Permission denied

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

After upgrading to a new release version, my bash scripts start spitting errors:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, permissions, stdout Leave a comment

Why does chmod +w not give write permission to other(o)

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

When I run chmod +w filename it doesn’t give write permission to other, it just gives write permission to user and group.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags chmod, command-line, linux, permissions Leave a comment
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  1. michealSmith07 on Is there a way to dynamically refresh the less command?August 21, 2022

    That is a very nice post. I like this post.

  2. anonymous on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianJune 27, 2022

    saved my day!! Thanks for the help…

  3. sreedhar on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    Thanks its working

  4. saintnick on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

  5. ranafoul on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianApril 22, 2022

    apt remove libwacom2 helped on kali 2022.01. gr8

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