How can I grant permissions to a user on a directory (Read, Write, Modify) using the Windows command line?

How to grant permission to users for a directory using command line in Windows?

I get the following error messages when I moved my code from my laptop to my Mac Mini and opened it over there:


&gt;myProject is locked for editing and you may not be able to save your changes?

---

&gt;myProject is currently locked because you are not the owner of the file and do not have write permission.

---------------

&gt;The file &quot;xxx.xcuserdatad&quot; could not be unlocked.
Could not add write permission to the file because you do not own it.  Try modifying the permission of the file in the Finder or Terminal.

---------------

I did a search with Finder:  What came up was a file called UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate inside of xxx.xcuserdatad... GetInfo showed the file not to be locked. 

However looking at the path(from GetInfo) showed the file to be within &quot;xxx.xcodeproj&quot; and further within &quot;project.xcworkspace/xcuserdata/xxx.xcuserdatad&quot;

I can&#39;t find this anywhere, and I don&#39;t know how to use my project on another computer.

myProject is locked for editing and you may not be able to save your changes?

We can test if a directory is writable by the uid of the current process:

    if [ -w $directory ] ; then echo &#39;Eureka!&#39; ; fi

But can anyone suggest a way to test if a directory is writable by some *other* uid?

My scenario is that I am administering a MySQL Server instance, and I want to change the location of the slow-query log file temporarily.  I can do this by executing a MySQL command `SET GLOBAL slow_query_log_file=&#39;$new_log_filename&#39;` and then disable &amp; enable query logging to make `mysqld` start using that file.

But I&#39;d like my script to check that the uid of the `mysqld` process has permissions to create that new log file.  So I&#39;d like to do something like (pseudocode):

    $ if [ -w-as-mysql-uid `basename $new_log_filename` ] ; then echo &#39;Eureka!&#39; ; fi

But of course that&#39;s an imaginary test predicate.

*Clarification:*  I would like a solution that doesn&#39;t rely on `su` because I can&#39;t assume the user of my script has su privilege.

Test if a directory is writable by a given UID?

Here is my problem,

In Windows I am making a zip file in which there is a text .sh file which is supposed to be executed in Linux.
The user on the other end opens the zip file in Linux and tries to execute the .sh file but the execute permission is gone. So the user has to do it manually ( like explained here:[add execute permission][1].

How can I in Windows make the .sh executable and add it to a zip file so that when the zip file opens in linux the .sh file still retains its execute permission ( so that user doesn&#39;t have to do it manually)


  [1]: http://roshanbook.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/make-sh-file-executable-in-linux/

How to assign execute permission to a .sh file in windows to be executed in linux

I&#39;ve read through a few questions regarding file permissions in Git and I&#39;m still a bit confused. I&#39;ve got a repo on GitHub forked from another. Post merge, they should be identical. However:

    $ git diff --summary origin/epsilon master/epsilon
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 ants/dist/sample_bots/csharp/compile.sh
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 ants/dist/starter_bots/coffeescript/MyBot.coffee
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 ants/dist/starter_bots/coffeescript/ants.coffee
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 ants/util/block_test.sh
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 manager/mass_skill_update.py
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 worker/jailguard.py
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 worker/release_stale_jails.py
     mode change 100644 =&gt; 100755 worker/start_worker.sh

I&#39;ve tried changing file permissions, but it does not alter the diff results.

Git file permissions on Windows

I need to hide all *permission denied* messages from:

    find . &gt; files_and_folders

I am experimenting when such message arises. I need to gather all folders and files, to which it does not arise. 

Is it possible to direct the permission levels to the `files_and_folders` file? 

How can I hide the errors at the same time?

How can I exclude all &quot;permission denied&quot; messages from &quot;find&quot;?

What is the best way to open a file as read/write if it exists, or if it does not, then create it and open it as read/write? From what I read, `file = open(&#39;myfile.dat&#39;, &#39;rw&#39;)` should do this, right?

It is not working for me (Python 2.6.2) and I&#39;m wondering if it is a version problem, or not supposed to work like that or what.

The bottom line is, I just need a solution for the problem. I am curious about the other stuff, but all I need is a nice way to do the opening part.

The enclosing directory was writeable by user and group, not other (I&#39;m on a Linux system... so permissions 775 in other words), and the exact error was:

&gt; IOError: no such file or directory.


open() in Python does not create a file if it doesn&#39;t exist

Seems as though an update on Windows 10 overnight broke Python. Just trying to run `python --version` returned a &quot;Permission Denied&quot; error.  None of the three updates; KB4507453, KB4506991, or KB4509096 look like they&#39;d be the culprit but the timing of the issue is suspicious. Rather than messing with rolling back, I&#39;m hoping there&#39;s a simpler fix that I&#39;m missing.

The permissions on python are &quot;-rwxr-xr-x&quot; and I haven&#39;t changed anything besides letting the Windows update reboot machine after installing last night&#39;s patches.

According to the System Information, I&#39;m running 10.0.18362

Should also note that this is happening whether I (try) to execute Python from git-bash using &quot;run as administrator&quot; or not, and if I try using PowerShell, it just opens the Windows store as if the app isn&#39;t installed so I&#39;m thinking it can&#39;t see the contents of my `/c/Users/david/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/` folder for some reason.

I&#39;ve also tried to reinstall Python 3.7.4, but that didn&#39;t help either. Is there something else I should be looking at?

&quot;Permission Denied&quot; trying to run Python on Windows 10

I am stuck with this error no matter what directory I am in, and what I type after &quot;npm&quot; in cmd.exe. Here is the npm-debug.log: 

    0 info it worked if it ends with ok
    1 verbose cli [ &#39;C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe&#39;,
    1 verbose cli   &#39;C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js&#39; ]
    2 info using npm@2.14.12
    3 info using node@v4.2.6
    4 verbose stack Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
    4 verbose stack     at Error (native)
    5 verbose cwd C:\Users\me
    6 error Windows_NT 6.1.7601
    7 error argv &quot;C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe&quot; &quot;C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js&quot;
    8 error node v4.2.6
    9 error npm  v2.14.12
    10 error code EISDIR
    11 error errno -4068
    12 error syscall read
    13 error eisdir EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
    13 error eisdir This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
    13 error eisdir and is related to npm not being able to find a package.json in
    13 error eisdir a package you are trying to install.
    14 verbose exit [ -4068, true ]

I have tried and uninstalling/reinstalling nodejs multiple times, I even deleted npm and npm-cache folders in C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming. I&#39;m not sure what went wrong to cause this. One second it was working fine, and now I can&#39;t get rid of this error. The explanation in the log does not make sense, as it gives this error in any directory. I should note that running a command prompt as administrator does not give this error. I&#39;m pulling my hair out this Friday evening trying to get this fixed, any help would be greatly appreciated!

NPM stuck giving the same error EISDIR: Illegal operation on a directory, read at error (native)

Suppose I want to open a file in an existing Emacs session using `su` or `sudo`, without dropping down to a shell and doing `sudoedit` or `sudo emacs`. One way to do this is

    C-x C-f /sudo::/path/to/file

but this requires an expensive [round-trip through SSH][1]. Is there a more direct way?

[EDIT] @JBB is right. I want to be able to invoke `su`/`sudo` to save as well as open. It would be OK (but not ideal) to re-authorize when saving. What I&#39;m looking for is variations of `find-file` and `save-buffer` that can be &quot;piped&quot; through `su`/`sudo`.

  [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/

Open a file with su/sudo inside Emacs

I keep getting this error when trying to configure the upload directory with Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3 on CentOS.

In php.ini:

    upload_tmp_dir = /var/www/html/mysite/tmp_file_upload/

In httpd.conf:

    Directory /var/www/html/mysite/tmp_file_upload/&gt;
        Options  -Indexes
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    &lt;/Directory&gt;
    &lt;Directory /var/www/html/mysite/images/&gt;
                    Options -Indexes
    &lt;/Directory&gt;

CentOS directory permissions:

    drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 10:01 images
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:54 tmp_file_upload

No matter what I do, I keep getting this error from PHP when I upload the file:

&gt; Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/robot.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/mysite/process.php on line 78
&gt;
&gt; Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move &#39;/tmp/phpsKD2Qm&#39; to &#39;images/robot.jpg&#39; in /var/www/html/mysite/process.php on line 78

As you can see, it never did take the configuration from the php.ini file regarding the upload file.

What am I doing wrong here?





move_uploaded_file gives &quot;failed to open stream: Permission denied&quot; error

I have a script that I run using php artisan (with **root** user), and sometimes it causes the daily log file to be created before the apache **www-data** user does - which means that when a real user uses my web application, I get the folder permission error:

&gt; Failed to open stream: Permission denied

I change the permissions back to **www-data** everytime but I want to solve this by having the log file always created with the correct permissions.

I&#39;ve considered creating a cron job that creates the file or touches it to make sure it has the right permission everyday, but I&#39;m looking for a better solution that doesn&#39;t rely on another script.

We&#39;ve also considered wrapping php artisan in another script to make sure that it is always run with the **www-data** credentials, but somethings that we want to do are actually **root** procedures that apache should not be allowed to do. 

Any more suggestions?

Laravel daily log created with wrong permissions

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

If a file is set to read only mode, how do I change it to write mode and vice versa from within Emacs?

How do I change read/write mode for a file using Emacs?

I want to create a file in a directory owned by the staff group which I am a member of.  Why can I not do this?

    bmccann@bmccann-htpc:~$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/R/
    total 4
    drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2010-07-31 16:21 site-library
    bmccann@bmccann-htpc:~$ id -nG bmccann
    bmccann adm dialout cdrom plugdev staff lpadmin admin sambashare
    bmccann@bmccann-htpc:~$ touch /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/tmp
    touch: cannot touch `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/tmp&#39;: Permission denied



Linux, Why can&#39;t I write even though I have group permissions?

I want to version control my web server as described in  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3154227/version-control-for-my-web-server, by creating a git repo out of my `/var/www directory`.  My hope was that I would then be able to push web content from our dev server to github, pull it to our production server, and spend the rest of the day at the pool.  

Apparently a kink in my plan is that Git won&#39;t respect file permissions (I haven&#39;t tried it, only reading about it now.)  I guess this makes sense in that different boxes are liable to have different user/group setups.  But if I wanted to force permissions to propagate, knowing my servers are configured the same, do I have any options? Or is there an easier way to approach what I&#39;m trying to do?

Retaining file permissions with Git

    $ git ls-tree fb3a8bdd0ce
    100644 blob 63c918c667fa005ff12ad89437f2fdc80926e21c    .gitignore
    100644 blob 5529b198e8d14decbe4ad99db3f7fb632de0439d    .mailmap
    100644 blob 6ff87c4664981e4397625791c8ea3bbb5f2279a3    COPYING
    040000 tree 2fb783e477100ce076f6bf57e4a6f026013dc745    Documentation
    100755 blob 3c0032cec592a765692234f1cba47dfdcc3a9200    GIT-VERSION-GEN
    100644 blob 289b046a443c0647624607d471289b2c7dcd470b    INSTALL
    100644 blob 4eb463797adc693dc168b926b6932ff53f17d0b1    Makefile
    100644 blob 548142c327a6790ff8821d67c2ee1eff7a656b52    README
    ...

I know the last 3 oct digits are file mode, but what are the first 3 digits for?
I can&#39;t find it out in git user&#39;s manual.

How to read the mode field of git-ls-tree&#39;s output

I am trying to write a query to a file for debugging. The file is in `database/execute.php`. The file I want to write to is `database/queries.php`.

I am trying to use `file_put_contents(&#39;queries.txt&#39;, $query)`

But I am getting 

&gt; file_put_contents(queries.txt) [&lt;a
&gt; href=&#39;function.file-put-contents&#39;&gt;function.file-put-contents&lt;/a&gt;]:
&gt; failed to open stream: Permission
&gt; denied

I have the `queries.txt` file chmod&#39;d to 777, what could the issue be?

file_put_contents - failed to open stream: Permission denied

Given the following Dockerfile

    FROM ubuntu
    RUN groupadd mygroup
    RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash -G mygroup john
    MKDIR /data
    COPY test/ /data/test data
    RUN chown -R john:mygroup /data
    CMD /bin/bash

In my test directory, which is copied I have set the file permissions to 770.

If I do a `su john` inside my container, I cannot access any of the files or subdirectories in my test directory. It seems this problem is related to the ownership in the aufs filesystem, where the copied directory still is owned by root and permissions are set to 770.

Is there a workaround for this problem to set the permissions correctly? One could be to set the permissions of the original directory to the uid of the container user before copying it. But this seems more like a hack.


Docker Copy and change owner

I just installed a linux system (Kubuntu) and was wondering if there is a program to make python programs executable for linux.

What do I use on linux to make a python program executable

[The documentation for `File.listFiles()`][1] suggests that `null` will ONLY be returned in the case that the file calling it is not a directory.


I have the following:

    String dir = &quot;/storage/emulated/0&quot;;
    File f = new File(dir);
    Log.v(&quot;Files&quot;,f.exists()+&quot;&quot;);
    Log.v(&quot;Files&quot;,f.isDirectory()+&quot;&quot;);
    Log.v(&quot;Files&quot;,f.listFiles()+&quot;&quot;);

The log reads:

    true
    true
    null

For some reason, `listFiles(`) is returning `null` even though the `File` is recognized as a valid directory. I&#39;m not super familiar with Android file hierarchy behavior, so I would guess the problem lies in there.

For reference, I&#39;m debugging on my Moto X, and results are the same whether the phone is plugged in to my computer or not - so I don&#39;t think it has to do with mounting when plugged in.


  [1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File.html#listFiles%28%29

File exists and IS directory, but listFiles() returns null

In my .NET 2.0 application, I need to check if sufficient permissions exist to create and write to files to a directory. To this end, I have the following function that attempts to create a file and write a single byte to it, deleting itself afterwards to test that permissions do exist.

I figured the best way to check was to actually try and do it, catching any exceptions that occur. I&#39;m not particularly happy about the general Exception catch though, so is there a better or perhaps a more accepted way of doing this?


    private const string TEMP_FILE = &quot;\\tempFile.tmp&quot;;
    
    /// &lt;summary&gt;
    /// Checks the ability to create and write to a file in the supplied directory.
    /// &lt;/summary&gt;
    /// &lt;param name=&quot;directory&quot;&gt;String representing the directory path to check.&lt;/param&gt;
    /// &lt;returns&gt;True if successful; otherwise false.&lt;/returns&gt;
    private static bool CheckDirectoryAccess(string directory)
    {
        bool success = false;
        string fullPath = directory + TEMP_FILE;
    
        if (Directory.Exists(directory))
        {
            try
            {
                using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(fullPath, FileMode.CreateNew, 
                                                                FileAccess.Write))
                {
                    fs.WriteByte(0xff);
                }
    
                if (File.Exists(fullPath))
                {
                    File.Delete(fullPath);
                    success = true;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                success = false;
            }
        }

Checking for directory and file write permissions in .NET

I am trying to change permission of a file access:

    os.chmod(path, mode)

I want to make it read-only:

    os.chmod(path, 0444)

Is there any other way make a file read-only?



Changing file permission in Python

I&#39;ve recently encountered an error trying to host my asp.net site with IIS.  I have found a solution that many swear by.

&gt; Solution:
&gt;
&gt; 1. Add IIS_IUSRS with Read permission on files in the folder
&gt; 2. Change IIS authentication method to BasicAuthentication
&gt; 3. refresh the website. It will work

([http://vivekthangaswamy.blogspot.com/2009/07/aspnet-website-cannot-read.html][1])

What do I add to my web.config file though?  I&#39;ve never had to edit it before.  Here is its current contents:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;!--
      For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
      http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
      --&gt;
    &lt;configuration&gt;
        &lt;connectionStrings&gt;
      &lt;add name=&quot;DefaultConnection&quot; connectionString=&quot;Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True&quot;
       providerName=&quot;System.Data.SqlClient&quot; /&gt;
     &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;
     &lt;system.web&gt;
      &lt;compilation debug=&quot;true&quot; strict=&quot;false&quot; explicit=&quot;true&quot; targetFramework=&quot;4.0&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/system.web&gt;
    &lt;/configuration&gt;

My error is:

&gt; Config Error: Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions  
&gt; Config File:  \\?\C:\Users\*****\Documents\Visual Studio2010\WebSites\PointsForTime\web.config

  [1]: http://vivekthangaswamy.blogspot.com/2009/07/aspnet-website-cannot-read.html

Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions

I&#39;ve installed openssh for windows and when I run `ssh localhost` I get 
&gt; Bad owner or permissions on C:\\Users\\gary/.ssh/config

I&#39;ve looked at these 2 questions https://superuser.com/questions/348694/bad-owner-or-permissions-error-using-cygwins-ssh-exe and https://serverfault.com/questions/253313/ssh-returns-bad-owner-or-permissions-on-ssh-config but none of the answers work for me.  sshd is running as a service as the Local System user.  I&#39;ve run `chmod 0600 C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config` and `chown gary C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config`.  I&#39;ve also cleared the ACL by running `setfacl -b C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config` and then `chmod 0600 C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config` again.  I&#39;ve also tried changing the owner to SYSTEM and got the same error.

I&#39;m not sure what else to do, is there anything wrong with my setup?  I also have git installed which installed mingw, I deleted ssh and sshd from my git installation so they wouldn&#39;t be on my path.

Other commands I&#39;ve run are
`icacls &quot;C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config&quot; /setowner gary`
`chown -R gary:1049089 C:\Users\gary\.ssh`

`ls -la C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config` shows 
&gt;-rw-r--r-- 1 gary 1049089 229 Jan  3 14:43 &#39;C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config&#39;

it keeps showing this even after changing the owner to SYSTEM, but in the file properties in file explorer it shows SYSTEM as the owner


openssh windows bad owner or permissions

In Python, when running `shutil.rmtree` over a folder that contains a read-only file, the following exception is printed:

     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 216, in rmtree
       rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror)
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 221, in rmtree
       onerror(os.remove, fullname, sys.exc_info())
     File &quot;C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py&quot;, line 219, in rmtree
       os.remove(fullname)
    WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: &#39;build\\tcl\\tcl8.5\\msgs\\af.msg&#39;

Looking in File Properties dialog I noticed that `af.msg` file is set to be read-only. 

So the question is: what is the *simplest* workaround/fix to get around this problem - given that my intention is to do an equivalent of `rm -rf build/` but on Windows? (without having to use third-party tools like unxutils or cygwin - as this code is targeted to be run on a bare Windows install with Python 2.6 w/ PyWin32 installed)

shutil.rmtree fails on Windows with &#39;Access is denied&#39;

I frequently add bash scripts to my Git repository, and the scripts have executable permissions in the Linux filesystem prior to the `git add`. But after pushing the added files to a remote repository and pulling in another location, the files show up with non-executable permissions. There seem to be two ways to correct the problem:

1. ```sh
   chmod u+x $script 
   git commit -am &quot;fixing the script permissions... again...&quot;
   ```

2. ```sh
   git update-index --chmod=+x $script
   ```

Instead of fixing up the permissions every time, is there a way to have Git simply look at the file permissions on the script during `git add`, recognize &quot;Hey, this here is an executable file!&quot; and add it to the repository with the executable permissions directly? 

Automatically apply &quot;git update-index --chmod=+x&quot; to executable files

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 am using R 2.13.0 with windows 7, after giving my user full privileges to the R folder (as described [here][1]).
This allows me to install new packages just fine.

However, when using update.packages(), to update existing packages, I keep getting the following error (for example, when updating the MASS package):

&gt; package &#39;MASS&#39; successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
&gt;
&gt; Warning: **unable to move temporary installation**
&gt; &#39;C:\Program
&gt; Files\R\R-2.13.0\library\file6cae3bcf\MASS&#39;
&gt; to &#39;C:\Program
&gt; Files\R\R-2.13.0\library\MASS&#39;

Any suggestions on how to fix this?


p.s: Running R as an administrator or shifting the library location out of Program Files is not a solution (it&#39;s a hack - but I am looking for a solution)


  [1]: http://www.r-statistics.com/2011/04/how-to-upgrade-r-on-windows-7/

Windows 7, update.packages problem: &quot;unable to move temporary installation&quot;?

I&#39;d like to allow anyone to list and read all files in my directory tree, but I don&#39;t want to make the files executable :

    dir
      \subdir1
          file1
      \subdir2
          file2
      ...
      \subdirX
          fileX

The following task makes my directories and files readable, but it makes all the files executable as well:

    - name: Make my directory tree readable
      file:
        path: dir
        mode: 0755
        recurse: yes

On the other hand, if I choose mode 0644, then all my files are not executable, but I&#39;m not able to list my directories.

Is it possible to set mode 755 for all directories and 644 for all files in a directory tree?



Ansible - Mode 755 for directories and 644 for files recursively

`scp -r /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/keypairfile.pem uploads ec2-user@publicdns:/var/www/html`

where uploads is a directory returns  Permission denied (publickey). 

However

`scp -i /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/keypairfile.pem footer.php ec2-user@publicdns:/var/www/html`

works **(notice the flag change).**

uploads is an empty folder

These are the file permissions for the uploads directory 

`drwxrwxrwx   3 geoffreysangston  admin     102 Nov 15 01:40 uploads`

These are the file permissions for /var/www/html

`drwxr-x--- 2 ec2-user ec2-user 4096 Jan  5 20:45 html`

I&#39;ve tried changing html to 777 and that doesn&#39;t work either.



SCP Permission denied (publickey). on EC2 only when using -r flag on directories

I&#39;m using Apache Web Server that has the owner set to `_www:_www`. I never know what is the best practice with file permissions, for example when I create new Laravel 5 project.

Laravel 5 requires `/storage` folder to be writable. I found plenty of different approaches to make it work and I usually end with making it `777` chmod recursively. I know it&#39;s not the best idea though.

The official doc says:

&gt; Laravel may require some permissions to be configured: folders within
&gt; `storage` and `vendor` require write access by the web server.

Does it mean that the web server needs access to the `storage` and `vendor` folders themselves too or just their current contents?

I assume that what is much better, is changing the **owner** instead of permissions. I changed all Laravel&#39;s files permissions recursively to `_www:_www` and that made the site work correctly, as if I changed chmod to `777`. The problem is that now my text editor asks me for password each time I want to save any file and the same happens if I try to change anything in Finder, like for example copy a file.

What is the correct approach to solve these problems?

 1. Change `chmod`
 2. Change the owner of the files to match those of the
        web server and perhaps set the text editor (and Finder?) to skip
        asking for password, or make them use `sudo`
 3. Change the owner of the web server to match the os user (I don&#39;t
    know the consequences)
 4. Something else

How to set up file permissions for Laravel?

I am trying to mount a host directory in Docker, but then I cannot access it from within the container, even if the access permissions look good.

I am doing

    sudo docker run -i -v /data1/Downloads:/Downloads ubuntu bash

and then

    ls -al

It gives me:

    total 8892
    drwxr-xr-x.  23 root root    4096 Jun 18 14:34 .
    drwxr-xr-x.  23 root root    4096 Jun 18 14:34 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x.   1 root root       0 Jun 18 14:34 .dockerenv
    -rwx------.   1 root root 9014486 Jun 17 22:09 .dockerinit
    drwxrwxr-x.  18 1000 1000   12288 Jun 16 11:40 Downloads
    drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root    4096 Jan 29 18:10 bin
    drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root    4096 Apr 19  2012 boot
    drwxr-xr-x.   4 root root     340 Jun 18 14:34 dev
    drwxr-xr-x.  56 root root    4096 Jun 18 14:34 etc
    drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root    4096 Apr 19  2012 home

and a lot more lines like that (I think this is the relevant portion).

If I do

    cd /Downloads
    ls

the result is

    ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied

The host is Fedora 20, with Docker 1.0.0 and go1.2.2.

What is going wrong?

Permission denied on accessing host directory in Docker

I have a git checkout. All the file permissions are different than what git thinks they should be therefore they all show up as modified.

Without touching the content of the files (just want to modify the permissions) how do I set all the files permissions to what git thinks they should be?

How to restore the permissions of files and directories within git if they have been modified?

Is it possible to setup directory permissions such that a group is able to read and write files and subdirectories but not delete anything?

Linux directory permissions read write but not delete

How can I get a file&#39;s permission mask like 644 or 755 on *nix using python?

Is there any function or class for doing that? Thank you very much!

How can I get the Unix permission mask from a file?

I am using the following 2 commands to create a 0B file and set its extn to 644

    touch filename.ext
    chmod 777 filename.txt

My question is that whether there is any single command in unix (korn shell) that will do the two things together that is to say create a 0B fil with desired permission?

Single command to create a file and set its permission

I am trying to mimic the action of right-clicking on a folder, setting &quot;modify&quot; on a folder, and having the permissions apply to the specific folder and subfolders and files.

I&#39;m mostly there using Powershell, however the inheritance is only being set as &quot;subfolders and files&quot; instead of the whole &quot;this folder, subfolders and files&quot;.

Is there some unlisted flag for System.Security.AccessControl.PropagationFlags that will set this properly?

Here&#39;s what I&#39;m working with so far.

    $Folders = Get-childItem c:\TEMP\
    $InheritanceFlag = [System.Security.AccessControl.InheritanceFlags]::ContainerInherit -bor [System.Security.AccessControl.InheritanceFlags]::ObjectInherit
    $PropagationFlag = [System.Security.AccessControl.PropagationFlags]::InheritOnly
    $objType = [System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType]::Allow 

    foreach ($TempFolder in $Folders)
    {
	echo &quot;Loop Iteration&quot;
	$Folder = $TempFolder.FullName
	
	$acl = Get-Acl $Folder
	$permission = &quot;domain\user&quot;,&quot;Modify&quot;, $InheritanceFlag, $PropagationFlag, $objType
	$accessRule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule $permission

	$acl.SetAccessRule($accessRule)
	Set-Acl $Folder $acl
    } 

Setting Inheritance and Propagation flags with set-acl and powershell

I am trying to use the &quot;default&quot; options in applying folder permissions; by that, I mean that using the &quot;Full Controll, Write, Read, etc&quot; in the &#39;Properties&#39; for a folder.

The following script works to add the user in, but it applies &quot;Special Permissions&quot; - not the ones with the tick boxes for the ones visible in the properties menu of the folder:

&lt;!-- language: lang-powershell --&gt;

    $Acl = Get-Acl &quot;\\R9N2WRN\Share&quot;

    $Ar = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule (&quot;user&quot;,&quot;FullControl&quot;,&quot;Allow&quot;)

    $Acl.SetAccessRule($Ar)
    Set-Acl &quot;\\R9N2WRN\Share&quot; $Acl

What am I doing wrong please?

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