When I ssh in to my vagrant vm, I can change permissions of files and folders above and outside the vagrant user folder, and for files within the vagrant user folder. But cannot change permissions for folders under the vagrant user folder. I have the same problem whether logged in as the vagrant user and root.

Is there some sort of restriction on changing permissions in the vagrant user&#39;s folder? The vagrant user folder is not shared with the host OS, but the capistrano deploy folder and the docRoot are. 

Guest is CentOS 6, Host is OS X 10.7. Vagrant is 1.0.5. Virtualbox is 4.2.1.

Cannot change permissions of folders within vagrant home folder

The code bases I work with are checked out from Git repositories onto my Linux machine. Since our production code is written to be deployed on Linux, I do all the testing on my Linux machine but like to use Windows for everyday usage, including code editing/authoring. 

For that purpose, I have created a **Samba share** of the folder (my home folder) where I checkout the code to, like this:

    [wgrover]
        path = /home/wgrover
        available = yes
        valid users = wgrover
        read only = no
        browsable = yes
        public = yes
        writable = yes

However, when I edit a file from the samba share `\\linux-box\wgrover` in Windows, **the file permission in Linux keeps changing to `755` even though it was `644` before editing**. 

This keeps showing up in my `git diff` like this:

    diff --git a/debian/maggie.nginx.conf b/debian/maggie.nginx.conf
    old mode 100644
    new mode 100755
    index 7cda506..7eab574

It is possible to set a `create mask` in smb.conf but that will also not  &quot;preserve&quot; the original file permissions. I can ignore file mode changes in git by setting `fileMode = false` in `.gitconfig` but that also ignores the problem.

***Is there any way to preserve the file permissions when they are modified from linux?***

preserving file permissions for samba shares when file is edited

How do I use chmod with Node.js?

There is a method in the package `fs`, which should do this, but I don&#39;t know what it takes as the second argument.

&gt; **fs.chmod(path, mode, [callback])**
&gt;
&gt; Asynchronous chmod(2). No arguments other than a possible exception are given to the completion callback.
&gt; 
&gt; **fs.chmodSync(path, mode)**
&gt;
&gt; Synchronous chmod(2).

(from the [Node.js documentation][1])

If I do something like

    fs.chmodSync(&#39;test&#39;, 0755);

nothing happens (the file isn&#39;t changed to that mode).

    fs.chmodSync(&#39;test&#39;, &#39;+x&#39;);

doesn&#39;t work either.

I&#39;m working on a Windows machine btw.


  [1]: https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_chmod_path_mode_callback

How do I use chmod with Node.js

I have an archive, which is archived by someone else, and I want to automatically, after I download it, to change a branch of the file system within the extracted files to gain read access. (I can&#39;t change how archive is created).

I&#39;ve looked into this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6937885/chmod-how-to-recursively-add-execute-permissions-only-to-files-which-already-ha as into some others, but no joy.

The directories originally come with multiple but all wrong flags, they may appear as:

    drwx------
    d---r-x---
    drwxrwxr-x
    dr--r-xr--

Those are just the few I&#39;ve discovered so far, but could be more.

`find` errors when tries to look into a directory with no `x` permission, and so doesn&#39;t pass it to `chmod`. What I&#39;ve been doing so far, is manually change permissions on the parent directory, then go into the child directories and do the same for them and so on. But this is a lot of hand labour. Isn&#39;t there some way to do this automatically?

I.e. how I am doing it now:

do:

    $ chmod -R +x
    $ chmod -R +r

until I get no errors, then

    $ find -type f -exec chmod -x {} +

But there must be a better way.

Chmod recursively

I&#39;m working to set up Panda on an Amazon EC2 instance.
I set up my account and tools last night and had no problem using SSH to interact with my own personal instance, but right now I&#39;m not being allowed permission into Panda&#39;s EC2 instance.
[Getting Started with Panda][1]

I&#39;m getting the following error:

    @         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
    
    Permissions 0644 for &#39;~/.ec2/id_rsa-gsg-keypair&#39; are too open.
    It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
    This private key will be ignored.

I&#39;ve chmoded my keypair to 600 in order to get into my personal instance last night, and experimented at length setting the permissions to 0 and even generating new key strings, but nothing seems to be working.

Any help at all would be a great help!


  [1]: http://pandastream.com/docs/getting_started

---

Hm, it seems as though unless permissions are set to 777 on the directory, the ec2-run-instances script is unable to find my keyfiles.
I&#39;m new to SSH so I might be overlooking something.

WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! when trying to SSH into Amazon EC2 Instance

How would I change all files to 644 and all folders to 755 using `chmod` from the `linux` command prompt? (Terminal)



Change all files and folders permissions of a directory to 644/755

I want to create a file from within a python script that is executable.

    import os
    import stat
    os.chmod(&#39;somefile&#39;, stat.S_IEXEC)

it appears `os.chmod` doesn&#39;t &#39;add&#39; permissions the way unix `chmod` does. With the last line commented out, the file has the filemode `-rw-r--r--`, with it not commented out, the file mode is `---x------`. How can I just add the `u+x` flag while keeping the rest of the modes intact?

How do you do a simple &quot;chmod +x&quot; from within python?

I have a project in which I have to change the mode of files with `chmod` to 777 while developing, but which should not change in the main repo. 

Git picks up on `chmod -R 777 .` and marks all files as changed. Is there a way to make Git ignore mode changes that have been made to files?

How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?

I have a web directory `/www` and a folder in that directory called `store`.

Within `store` are several files and folders. I want to give the folder `store` and all files and folders within the `store` folder all permissions. 

How do I do this? I am guessing via .htaccess.

Chmod 777 to a folder and all contents

How to create a directory and give permission in single command in Linux?

I have to create lots of folder with full permission `777`.

### Commands

    mkdir path/foldername
    chmod 777 path/foldername 

I don&#39;t like to create and give permission in two commands. Can I do this in single command?




How to create a directory and give permission in single command

Recently I am using Python module os, when I tried to change the permission of a file, I did not get the expected result. For example, I intended to change the permission to rw-rw-r--,

    os.chmod(&quot;/tmp/test_file&quot;, 664)

The ownership permission is actually -w--wx--- (230)

    --w--wx--- 1 ag ag 0 Mar 25 05:45 test_file

However, if I change 664 to 0664 in the code, the result is just what I need, e.g.

    os.chmod(&quot;/tmp/test_file&quot;, 0664)

The result is:

    -rw-rw-r-- 1 ag ag 0 Mar 25 05:55 test_file

Could anybody help explaining why does that leading 0 is so important to get the correct result?

Python module os.chmod(file, 664) does not change the permission to rw-rw-r-- but -w--wx----

It&#39;s hard to find Mac-specific answers to this question on the web, so I&#39;m hoping someone out there can put this one to rest for me? My permissions are screwed up on my sites and I&#39;m not sure how to fix them without just slamming a recursive 777 on everything which is quite obviously incorrect.

Thanks!

Correct owner/group/permissions for Apache 2 site files/folders under Mac OS X?

I would like to change the permissions of a folder and all its subfolders and files in one step (command) in Linux.

I have already tried the below command but it works only for the mentioned folder:

    chmod 775 /opt/lampp/htdocs

Is there a way to set `chmod 755` for `/opt/lampp/htdocs` and all of its content including subfolders and files?

Also, in the future, if I create a new folder or file inside `htdocs`, how can the permissions of that automatically be set to `755`? 

I had a look at this Stack Overflow question too:

*http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3740187/how-to-set-default-chmod-in-linux-terminal*

  [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3740187/how-to-set-default-chmod-in-linux-terminal





How to change permissions for a folder and its subfolders/files in one step

This may sound silly, but I have a file/ script that need to run and in order to do it I must change it to become executable. I would want to use either `chmod a+x` or `chmod 755`. But is there a difference between using `chmod a+x` and `chmod 755`?


Difference between using &quot;chmod a+x&quot; and &quot;chmod 755&quot;

Running bash on windows 10, the simple syntax below works when I SSH to my webserver, but not when I exit out and am on my local machine. It doesn&#39;t give me an error, but I can see permissions are unchanged. I have to checked that I am set up as an administrator on my computer. Is this an error or is this just a consequence of the local operating system being windows? IF the later, it makes me question the value of using bash on windows if common operations such as this won&#39;t work. 

    $chmod 644 filename 

 

chmod WSL (Bash) doesn&#39;t work

I&#39;m trying to use PHP to create a file, but it isn&#39;t working. I am assuming this is because it doesn&#39;t have write access (it&#39;s always been the problem before). I tried to test if this was the problem by making the folder chmod 0777, but that just ended up making every script in that directory return a 500 error message until I changed it back.
How do I give PHP write access to my file system so it can a create a file?

Edit: It is hosted on Hostgator shared hosting using Apache.

Edit 2: Someone asked for the code:
The code is a GD image script. I know the rest of it works as previously I was creating the image every ime it was called. Now I am trying to create them when new text is added and save them to a folder. The write line I have is:
imagejpeg(null,$file,85);

I also created a test file to check if it was just a broken script (mainly copied from tizag):
http://gearboxshow.info/rkr/lesig.jpg/testfile.txt (I don&#39;t know if/how to post the code here properly. Here is the contents of the PHP script, minus PHP tags.)

It returns 13,13,1 (separate lines), so it looks as if it thinks it wrote something, but the testfile.txt is blank (I uploaded a blank one), or non-existent (if I delete it).

Edit 3: The server runs CentOS.

How do I give PHP write access to a directory?

I&#39;ve had a look over [here][1] but didn&#39;t find any details on the best file permissions.  I also took a look at some of WordPress&#39;s form&#39;s questions over [here too][2] but anybody that suggests 777 obviously needs a little lesson in security.

In short my question is this.  What permissions should I have for the following:

 1. root folder storing all the WordPress content
 2. wp-admin
 3. wp-content
 4. wp-includes

and then all the files in each of those folders?

  [1]: https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-file-permissions/
  [2]: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-are-correct-file-permissions-1

Correct file permissions for WordPress

I need to use chmod to change all files recursivly to 664. I would like to skip the folders.
I was thinking of doing something like this

    ls -lR | grep ^-r | chmod 664

This doesn&#39;t work, I&#39;m assuming because I can&#39;t pipe into chmod
Anyone know of an easy way to do this?

Thanks

changing chmod for files but not directories

why doesn&#39;t this work I am trying to change all files to 644 abd all -d to 755:

    find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

**i get: find: missing argument to `-exec&#39;**
 thanks

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

I have a folder in my subdomain which is created through WHM so the owner of that subdomain is not the owner of main domain. 

I want to change the owner of one of the folders of subdomain to domain owner. I tried this, but when I check with `winscp` it shows owner as 500.

  
      chown users:user /home/xyz/somnething/photo/

I&#39;ve tried to change from winscp also, but there is no option for winscp, so I&#39;ve logged in as root using putty and ran the command from above, but it doesn&#39;t help and I am unable to upload any file to subdomain from the main domain, as it returns error &quot;permission denied&quot;.


    $ ls -l /home/xyz/somnething/photo/
    total 8 
    drwxr-xr-x 2 sujit sujit 4096 Feb 21 23:39 ./ 
    drwxr-x--- 5 rohan nobody 4096 Feb 22 02:28 ../ 

I want to give the ownership of rohan to sujit to have rights to upload file from sujit domain to subdomain rohan

**Update:**

Now it is changing owner to 500 

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