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is /etc/sudoers writable or not
The default permission in /etc/sudoers file is readonly for root and group root as in picture is obvious :
So when you open it with any test editor it can't be written and give error read only.
now ...
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Program file exists in /usr/bin, but cannot be used
Clearly my file exists in /usr/bin
$ ls /usr/bin/ngrok
/usr/bin/ngrok
However, when I attempt to chown it I receive an error
$ sudo chown my_user:users /usr/bin/ngrok
chown: cannot dereference '/...
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How to enable users to manage certain groups on file server
Let's assume we are in a business environment and we want to configure a *nix/*BSD file server. The business does work for several customers, thus the folder structure has the clients' names on the ...
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Change existing file type from standard file "-" to directory "d" as shown with Unix ls -l
In summary, if I use ls -l it yields something for a directory like...
drwxr-xr-x
and the reported error for a directory with files in it, is it shows as a standard file and ls -l yields...
-rwxr-...
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Can't execute files in particular directories
We are encountering a bizarre issue were non-root users are unable to execute any files (scripts or binaries) in certain directories. This transcript demonstrates the issue:
[root@b6 /]# mkdir q
[...
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Determine group of unreadable unix/linux directory
dcoles1@shovel:/ $ cd /DriveXT
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT $ ls
. unreadable
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT $ cd /DriveXT/MML/
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT/MML $ ls
. unreadable
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT/MML $ ...
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