Hi,

 

I'm trying to move files from one share to another and I an error "File Access Denied" saying I need nobody permission to make changes to files.

 

I moved the files from external hdd using the midnight command.

 

I tried running the fix permission utility with no luck.

 

Do I need to set the permission manually every time I mount a USB drive?

 

I'm using unRAID 5.0.4

 

Thanks

If you didn't use the following command to load Midnight Commander you might try it this way next time before you use MC to move/copy files from your USB drive.

sudo -u nobody mc

 

Thanks I'll remember that for next time.

 

How do I fix it now?

You have to chmod the files and then chown the file. I can't remember the exact command for chown as I need to see what the user is set as and I'm not near my pc.

 

 

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Thanks

 

Can someone please give me the exact commands I should use?

Okay at a pc now:

Use chown to change the users to nobody

chown nobody:users file.name

Add -R if it is a directory and you want it to apply to all files

chown -R nobody:users directory

See how that goes.

 

If you also need to mod permissions:

chmod XXX file.name

XXX is the octal that you need. 777  will work for everything but you probably don't need quite that much.

Read this, it will explain it pretty well.

http://www.linux.org/threads/file-permissions-chmod.4094/

-R after chomd for recursive to apply to all files.

 

Josh

Just jumping in to this OLD thread to say thanks. Changing the owner to my main account allowed me to finally edit the conf file and add my domain from NPM. Cheers!