I'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'm not being allowed permission into Panda's EC2 instance. Getting Started with Panda I'm getting the following error: @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIV...
which ftp client or which syntax allows easy chmod of subdirectories? ...
I am using Cygwin with a dll version of 1.5.19 (yes, out-of-date, I know, but we're doing it for configuration control reasons). All my files (existing and newly created) show up with permissions 644, despite a umask of 022. Also, using chmod doesn't change the permissions. I have ntsec set in the CYGWIN environment variable. I need ...
I have a folder on my server on which I have changed the permissions to 777 (read, write and execute all) to allow users to upload their pictures. What are the security risks involved in this? I have implemented code to restrict what file formats can be uploaded, but what would happen if someone was to find the location of the directory,...
We recently switched from using PCs at work to Macs, so I'm new to the *nix way of doing things. I have the default Apache running that shipped with 10.5, but I've noticed that when I drag files from a Windows server to my machine, the permissions are changed. Specifically, I'm writing data to an XML file, and occasionally after swapping...
My Vuze cannot update itself as it claims that my application folder is not writeable. I tried to make it writeable by chmod 777 /Applications I get the following error $chmod 777 /Applications/ chmod: /Applications/: Operation not permitted How can you make /Applications folder writeable? ...
On my web server, my file permissions are all over the place and I want to 'reset' everything back to how it originally was. I don't want any users to be able to come in and delete things off my web server! I just want them to be able to look at php pages etc. What CHMod should I use? ...
hi i want a python program that given a directory, it will return all directories within that directory that have 775 (rwxrwxr-x) permissions thanks! ...
Hello, I am using the PHP function mkdir($path, 0777) to create a new directory on an Apache server (running on Windows). When I create this and view the folders, Windows has set the dir as read only. Is there a way of changing this without using exec() to cacls.exe? The PHP documentation states that chmod() doesn't work on Windows bu...
I run the following command at uni to my user account chmod -R 700 * Then, I run chmod -R 755 public_html My homepage remains to be "Forbidden" when I browse to it. The permissions of my user account 4 drwx------ 5 Newbie staff 4096 2008-12-19 12:39 Desktop 4 drwx------ 10 Newbie staff 4096 2009-04-16 02:28 Documents 4 drwx----...
Apologies if already answered. None of the listed answers seemed satisfactory. I'm using WAMP to build a site (obviously windows). Folder for images needs permissions turned on so they appear on the site. Everytime I use "Properties" on the folder, it reverts back to read only. Altering things in the advanced toolbars and trying to make...
Hi, I have installed a xampp (apache + mysql + php) stack on a portable volume (truecrypt volume on a usb drive) that I use on different linux machines, for webapp development. This volume is formatted in ext3, so I run into permissions problems as I can't be the same user on each machine. For example I tried to check the git status of...
I want to recursively chmod all of the subdirectories below my calcium directory: chmod a+wx calcium How do I change the above command to do this? I believe I'm using bash shell although I'm not sure how to verify this. ...
Hi, I'm trying to progress from merely dabbling with Linux to actual full-blown use, but am still very much a novice, so please excuse this extremely basic question. One thing I plan to be doing is writing (painfully simple) Perl scripts, and I'd like to be able to run them without explicitly calling Perl from the terminal. I appreciate ...
For my web application, people can upload images from a web form to my web server. What should I set the CHMOD settings for that image upload directory so that people can upload images (from the web server) to that directory but not execute any files they upload for security reasons. Would the chmod settings be? : chmod 744 directory/...
I just installed phpbb on my website. According to phpbb advice, I was suppose to set the config.php chmod to 640. In filezilla(my ftp program), I tried right-click the file, then select file permissions to 640, but it gives me this error: 500 'SITE CHMOD 640 config.php': command not understood How do i change the chmod? I am using win...
I get the following alert when I run a Ruby script warning: Insecure world writable dir /Users/cs/Documents in PATH, mode 040777 The solution is to change the permissions. However, I am unsure which one is the appropriate one. I use many user accounts for different purposes. I have one main account by which I run the commands at my ...
I am trying to create a file with PHP here is my code: $file_to_send = 'ftp_test_from_created_file.txt'; chmod($file_to_send, 0777); $fh = fopen($file_to_send,'w'); $tsv_line = 'Hey\tThese\tAre\tTab\tSeperated\tValues'; fwrite($fh, $tsv_line); fwrite($fh, '\n'); $tsv_line = 'Hey\tThese\tAre\tToo'; fwrite($fh, $tsv_line); fclose($fh); ...
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't work, I'm assuming because I can't pipe into chmod Anyone know of an easy way to do this? Thanks ...
Have a folder and files as follows: Folder: drwxrwxrwx 3 me 153157 8 Aug 17 14:17 Nugget File within Nugget: ... -rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 24 Aug 17 14:17 nugget.php I need to change permissions on nugget.php to 777 as per the documentation. $ chmod 777 nugget.php chmod: nugget.php: Operation not permitted Suggestions? ...