I want to change the owner and the group owner for all the files in the current working directories with a single line command. I don't want to have d ...

I'm currently setting up a PHP app to run on my local machine (windows). The README describes the steps to run to set up the app on the production sev ...

I met a php issue when uploading folder or files on the xampp's apache of ubuntu server: I created a specify FTP group and user with the folder: ...

Everything was good on my website. Then I ran this: What I was trying to do with the above was to change ownership from root to jaimemontoya for th ...

I'm setting up Tomcat on Centos according to https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-apache-tomcat-8-on-centos-7 , but with a ...

Homebrew brew doctor is printing many permissions errors, on a system that has multiple users. Some of the users are fully trusted, and need to be ab ...

I'm running chgrp apache session command to make sure that my php session directory has apache write permissions but I am getting the error: chgrp: ap ...

I need to change the permissions and owner / group on a series of files within a folder on an Apache server w/PHP 4. My script will change the info if ...

I want to keep root as owner of /var/www I want to make /var/www and /var/www/* accessible (rwx) by the group www-data. I believe apache's user is w ...

I'm creating an install script for a Linux game. As part of the installation, I change the suid permissions of the game executable to the "games" grou ...

I see a few requests that are similar to mine using the prune action, but what I want to do is recursively navigate through a docroot: which contai ...

I have a fresh, unmodified install of Apache on CentOS 7. I notice that when I look at the folder permissions for /var/www/html it and it's content is ...

I have created group (lets call this user admin): switched to user test (from admin user): Now I do this: So how can I make that everyone tha ...

Pre requisite steps: Create two new user accounts "a" and "b" Create a group "bar". Create a directory "foo". Task: All files put into th ...

I just copied an entire directory structure from one location on my server to another: That worked fine. Except the dirs & files are now owned ...

Is there a combine variant for chmod and chgrp that sets both permissions and groups in one single system call for each file? ...

I'm having a little problem here. So I changed the group of a folder including subfolders via chgrp -R groupname and it works all fine but I'm using t ...

I recently noticed a fairly strange and for me unexpected behaviour in Xubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. I was doing the following: Testing if my user in in ...

I have a bunch of folders I would like to find and change the group to the directory name. I can't figure it out - but would like something like: ...

I would like to know one thing about linux (ubuntu) permission commands. I am having couple of user groups in my linux environment 1) www-data -> ...