Top "File-permissions" questions

For questions relating to file read/write permissions, user groups, executable bits etc.

Permissions required to move file to different directory in Unix/Linux

I would like clarification on the permissions required, in order to move a file A from directory B to directory …

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why I cannot cd into /var/lib/mysql

The structure is the following ravas@ravas-desk-lmde /var/lib $ pwd /var/lib ravas@ravas-desk-lmde /var/lib $ ls -l | grep mysql …

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Single command to create a file and set its permission

I am using the following 2 commands to create a 0B file and set its extn to 644 touch filename.ext chmod 777 …

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Setting read/write permissions on Mongodb folder

I just finished installing MongoDB on OSX and setup a directory structure with sudo mkdir -p /data/db. When I …

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How can I let users access the internal storage directory of my app?

My app stores files in its internal storage directory (/Android/data/com.mycompany.myapp/files, as returned by getFilesDir()), and …

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How to fix permission denied for .git/ directory when performing git push?

I have set up a git repository on my server. Created a new user 'git'. My repos are located in /…

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Storing file permissions in Subversion repository

How do you store file permissions in a repository? A few files need to be read-only to stop a third …

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Permissions on log files created by log4j RollingFileAppender

How are the permissions for files created by RollingFileAppender determined? I recently changed a daemon process I have to be …

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Permission issues with Apache inside Docker

I'm using Docker to run an Apache instance. My docker file goes something like this: FROM ubuntu MAINTAINER your.face@…

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OS X permission denied for /usr/local/lib

I'm looking for any advice/intuition/clues/answers on a permission issue that has been plaguing me ever since I …

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