File Permissions - chmod
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Sergio Rodriguez
New Member
That's a nice tutorial but I found a lot easier way - with fstab: just add "uid=1000" in the options for each partition you want to be its owner, reboot and that's it.
Code:
UUID=79efb309-826e-40a7-a786-7b83b682dcb4 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=88FCD635FCD61CEE /media/rado/Drive_D ntfs errors=remount-ro,uid=1000 0 1
UUID=6F01A23F6CA00FCF /media/rado/Drive_E ntfs errors=remount-ro,uid=1000 0 1
You are already uid=1000 by default, as the first normal (non-root) user set up by the system.
... should show rado and 1000
Also, although you may only be showing an example above with the NTFS partitions/drives, that method might have relevance if you are playing games that were Windows-based and you want to be able to access them (say, under Steam or Proton) under Linux so as not to have to set up new files, but other than that you are lowering security.
@Rob has, at the beginning
My highlighting.
Besides, in Linux, you already have root privileges over Windows NTFS files and folders.
An example is here
So I already own those files and folders, without having to change anything.
Chmod (this Tutorial's subject) and chown are designed to be able to change the defaults of user access as part of a secure plan by the Administrator, as well as, in the case of chown, modifying downloaded files to make them executable.
Again as Rob has said, in 2013,
Whatever works for you with fstab, though, is great, it is a very useful file.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Code:
grep 1000 /etc/passwd... should show rado and 1000
Also, although you may only be showing an example above with the NTFS partitions/drives, that method might have relevance if you are playing games that were Windows-based and you want to be able to access them (say, under Steam or Proton) under Linux so as not to have to set up new files, but other than that you are lowering security.
@Rob has, at the beginning
My highlighting.
Besides, in Linux, you already have root privileges over Windows NTFS files and folders.
An example is here
Code:
chris@Tara-MATE:~$ cd /media/chris/OS/Windows/System32/GroupPolicy
chris@Tara-MATE:/media/chris/OS/Windows/System32/GroupPolicy$ ls -l
total 1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 128 Mar 5 13:45 GPT.INI
drwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 0 Feb 2 13:07 Machine
drwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 0 Feb 2 13:07 UserSo I already own those files and folders, without having to change anything.
Chmod (this Tutorial's subject) and chown are designed to be able to change the defaults of user access as part of a secure plan by the Administrator, as well as, in the case of chown, modifying downloaded files to make them executable.
Again as Rob has said, in 2013,
Whatever works for you with fstab, though, is great, it is a very useful file.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
setuid
Welcome to linux.org @shadow543
. Google under
linux srwxrwxr-x
... and you will find some good reading.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Welcome to linux.org @shadow543
. Google underlinux srwxrwxr-x
... and you will find some good reading.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Harish Rathaur
New Member
how to change a file's owner like i create a file but i want to change file ownership
With the chown command, try man chown.
Code:
EXAMPLES
chown root /u
Change the owner of /u to "root".
chown root:staff /u
Likewise, but also change its group to "staff".
chown -hR root /u
Change the owner of /u and subfiles to "root".Harish Rathaur
New Member
Thank you so much it is very help full for me.
thanks again
This would help someone what exactly the numbers are in permissions,
so 4 in binary format is represented as 100 and 2 is 010 and 1 is 001.
What this means? Consider 'r', 'w', 'x' you either want them set or not set i.e., in binary digit representation it is either 0 or 1.
Therefore, when we want a file to have permission for any user group,
if it is 'rwx' => 111 ( set , set, set) => 100 + 010 + 001 => 4 + 2 + 1 => 7
Inturn 7 in binary representation is 111 = 1*2^2 + 1*2^1 + 1*2^0 = 7
'rw-' = 110 = 100 + 010 + 000 = 4+2 = 6
'r-x' = 101 = 100 + 000 + 001 = 4 + 1 = 5
'-wx' = 011 = 000 + 010 + 001 = 3
and similarly other combinations.
Hope this helps.
so 4 in binary format is represented as 100 and 2 is 010 and 1 is 001.
What this means? Consider 'r', 'w', 'x' you either want them set or not set i.e., in binary digit representation it is either 0 or 1.
Therefore, when we want a file to have permission for any user group,
if it is 'rwx' => 111 ( set , set, set) => 100 + 010 + 001 => 4 + 2 + 1 => 7
Inturn 7 in binary representation is 111 = 1*2^2 + 1*2^1 + 1*2^0 = 7
'rw-' = 110 = 100 + 010 + 000 = 4+2 = 6
'r-x' = 101 = 100 + 000 + 001 = 4 + 1 = 5
'-wx' = 011 = 000 + 010 + 001 = 3
and similarly other combinations.
Hope this helps.
Md. Sayed Hasan Emon
New Member
I just wanna know for a small query that is it possible to change permission out of directory? (i.e: Software and as well as others staff)
frenchthomas
New Member
Hey, I would like to grant myself permission to /opt/
so I wrote
chmod 777 /opt/
but It outputs
chmod: /opt/: Operation not permitted
I really don't care about security so it would be nice if I could grant everyone full access to everyfile
so I wrote
chmod 777 /opt/
but It outputs
chmod: /opt/: Operation not permitted
I really don't care about security so it would be nice if I could grant everyone full access to everyfile
I have one doubt: Lets say I have created a file with name abc.txt and it has default permission as _rwxr_xr_x. So, if I want change it in to a directory (drwxr_xr_x) using Chmod, is it possible to change the directory flag or not?
The l is a symbolic link and the s is the setuid bit. If you don't know what those are, search for those exact phrases and someone'll have explained them better than I will.
Basically what KGIII said. The l (lowercase L) means it's a symbolic link. Symbolic links are a pointer that points to the actual file/directory, sort of like a shortcut in Windows.
The s means the setuid bit is set. When you set the setuid bit on an executable file, the file will be executed as if the owner (in the case above, root) called it, permissions included. There is also a setguid bit, which executes under the owned group. Powerful, but potentially dangerous functionality, so take caution.
The s means the setuid bit is set. When you set the setuid bit on an executable file, the file will be executed as if the owner (in the case above, root) called it, permissions included. There is also a setguid bit, which executes under the owned group. Powerful, but potentially dangerous functionality, so take caution.
