I’m working on a program that needs to store some information and I’ve decided to use a simple file for it. When the program starts it executes the following code, which should result in a file opened in append mode if it exists, or created if it doesn’t (The first time the program loads it should create it in the
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Getting ‘Insufficient rights’ and ‘userhelper must be setuid root’ error/warning while using consolehelper
‘/usr/bin/myapp’ is a link to ‘/usr/bin/consolehelper’. When non-root user try to run ‘/usr/bin/myapp’ on command prompt, it shows ‘userhelper must be setuid root’. But running with ‘sudo /usr/bin/myapp’ it works fine. While using with GUI, it shows ‘Insufficient rights’ popup. I tried by changing permissions of related files ‘/etc/security/console.apps/myapp’ and ‘/etc/pam.d/myapp’. I am getting same popup while opening ‘System->Administration->Users and
`gcloud compute copy-files`: permission denied when copying files
I’m having a hard time copying files over to my Google Compute Engine. I am using an Ubuntu server on Google Compute Engine. I’m doing this from my OS X terminal and I am already authorized using gcloud. Answer insert root@ before the instance name:
Potential issues of chmod 777 on a directory?
Assuming that I have this directory structure: /tmp/mysockets/appname/ What are the security drawbacks to doing chmod 777 on /tmp/mysockets/? Could another user delete or mess with the reference to the appname/ directory? What I want to do is allow other users to add their own directories to /tmp/mysockets/ but I don’t want to allow them to rename it or delete
Unable to configure folder permissions in Ubuntu
I found many related questions and tried to solve the issue but I was not successful. Actually I created an user named “amit” and assigned the group “www-data”. I gave permission to the folder using this method Change folder and file permission recursively: To change all the directories to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x): To change all the files to 644 (-rw-r–r–): But
linux how to allow user to read/write/delete files created from root in a specific folder
I use automysqlbackup to backup my mysql database. The problem is I can only run this program using sudo automysqlbackup. This program dumps the backup into my folder /home/user/backup but theses files are owned by root and when I connect via ftp to this folder I cannot delete or read them. Is it possible that any files created by root
Unable to run compiled files – bash: ./a.out: Permission denied. (I’ve tried chmod)
I’ve compiled my C source using cc test.c, and it did generate a.out file. However when I run it I get this error – My source is not in the home directory, it is on different FAT-32 partition, so I’ve mounted the drive in which the code is using the following command – Then I compile my code using cc
Change file owner group under Linux with java.nio.Files
I have a Linux server and I’m running an image resize job in Java for multiple websites on my server. The website files are owned by different OS users/groups. Newly created thumbnails/previews are owned by the user running the resize job. Now I was googleing around how to change the file owner of newly created previews/thumbnails in my resize program
Editing the sudoers file on Mac or Linux when you have no permissions
I’m trying to install something on my MacOS (or Linux) system and I don’t have permission because I’m not the admin. So I tried using sudo and it says that I’m not in /etc/sudoers file. I’ve tried editing the sudoers file but it won’t let me, so I “googled” it. Everybody says to use visudo to edit the file. The
What does “visudo: Warning: Cmnd_Alias `NOPASSWD’ referenced but not defined,” mean?
I am editing the file sudoer using the visudo command. When I am done saving the file this warning appears. I am not able to remotely execute a particular file as a non root user. I think this warning might have something to do with it. How do I resolve this warning? EDIT: It is actually NOPASSWD Answer Like Paulo