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Questions tagged [ownership]

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recursively change owner windows 7

Somehow I accidentally set all the files in a subfolder to "No Owner' and I can't seem to change all the permissions. I can change one by hand by changing the owner then setting permissions but how can I change owner of all the files in this…
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How to tar a directory preserving not only permissions, but ownership too

I have to compress a directory using tar.gz preserving not only permissions, but ownership/groups too. And, in this directory there are many files that belong to many users.
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How to arbitrarily map user/group ownerships in rsync

I need to rsync a directory to a remote server so that all files belonging to user X and group Y on the source (local) machine are mapped to user W and group Z on the destination (remote) machine. If possible by using ssh as the transport, but if I…
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Avoid errors from tar failing to restore directory permissions

I observe the following behavior with both tar 1.26 and 1.27.1: $ mkdir a b a/diffowner $ sudo mkdir b/diffowner $ sudo chmod a+w b/diffowner $ echo foo > a/diffowner/foo $ tar -C a -cvf test.tar diffowner diffowner/ diffowner/foo $ tar -C b -xvf…
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How to get around this error when unTarring an archive “tar: Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 1000: Operation not permitted”

When attempting to untar a file in a docker container with: tar -zvxf training.tar.gz -C data/multi30k I received the following error (train.de is a file within the .tar file): tar: train.de Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 1000: Operation…
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Is it possible to discover the current owner of a folder?

I am running the Windows 8 Enterprise x64. Here are the current security settings for a folder on an NTFS volume: I have access neither to the folder contents, nor to its security settings nor its current owner. Because I am an administrator, I…
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how can I do a Windows file search by file owner

I want to find a particular Excel file created by a past employee. All I know for sure is the file format (Excel 1997-2003) and the file owner's name. How can I search for this file on a Windows network share by file owner?
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How to make a file editable by two different users in different groups?

I have a folder at /home/www/, and the owner is www, which is part of the www-group. I have another user, john, part of the john group. How can I chown /home/www/ to make it writable by both www and john? Thanks
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How to preserve ownership and permissions in Dropbox?

I have two machines, a Mac and a PC running Linux, that I am trying to keep a certain file synced between using Dropbox. One of the files that I am syncing needs to be writable by another user (different UID on the same machine, not referring to…
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sudo chown fails with operation not permitted

I have found similar questions here, but the answers provided to those questions do not resolve my problem. If I do: sudo chown main.m I get an operation not permitted error. The general solution to prior errors was: sudo chflags…
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Windows 10: Why Does CBS.log Say Directory Is Owned Twice or Has Its Security Set Twice?

On my system, C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log contains these lines: 2019-10-08 02:00:48, Info CSI 0000008e Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\en-US\ is owned twice or has its security set twice Original…
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chown: changing ownership not permitted, even though running as root

I managed to configure my Raspberry Pi as an FTP server with ProFTPD. The only problem is, I can´t upload and rename files and Windows Explorer says: 350 File or directory exists,ready for destination name 550 Rename xyz permission denied Now…
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Understanding how to use Icals & Takeown to make changes and reset in Windows 10

Take ownership of a windows folder and its contents Make Changes Return ownership to original Understand the process Use Icacls and takedown in a windows 10 environment Before using takeown and icacls commands because of the sensitive nature of…
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Drive ownership corrupted Windows 7

A few weeks ago the fan in my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6) died. I took my computer apart to test the fan, which had definitely burned out, and ordered a new fan. In the meantime, there were files on my computer which I needed, so I connected the hard…
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Changing ownership without the sudo command

I was setting up a Ubuntu Server and I wanted to allow the FTP client to access the /etc/ folder. So I used the chown command to allow my account to use it. However, this changed the ownership of sudo and broke it. I can't run any commands as sudo…
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