MX linux

DanceMan · 04-20-2020, 06:09 PM

Trying to move my Pale Moon profile to another computer. Copy and paste blocked by permissions.

Donor computer has my user name permission. USB drive has root permission. Cannot find any method in all the MX programs to change permissions on a drive. Could not even find a way to format the thumb drive -- had to take it to a Windows computer.

BW-userx · 04-20-2020, 06:24 PM

Code:

sudo chown userName:group
sudo chmod 775 -R

one or the other.

DanceMan · 04-20-2020, 06:58 PM

Thanks. I'll keep that for next time. I was somehow able to open something (and I've been hunting around so many places I can't remember) as root and managed to copy and paste the profile over. However I have some files on a usb hdd that were transferred while on Mint that are tied to root ownership and I will eventually have to change permissions or ownership of them.

ondoho · 04-22-2020, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

Code:

sudo chown userName:group
sudo chmod 775 -R

one or the other.

Definitely not the latter for a browser profile (making all files executable, is simply asking for malware execution).
The 'chown' should most probably be executed recursively, i.e.

Code:

cd /to/misbehaving/partition
sudo chown -R DanceMan:Danceman .

BW-userx · 04-22-2020, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

Definitely not the latter for a browser profile (making all files executable, is simply asking for malware execution).
The 'chown' should most probably be executed recursively, i.e.

Code:

cd /to/misbehaving/partition
sudo chown -R DanceMan:Danceman .

765 .. nonetheless you're most likely more right, I just do that on occasion, to a blank data drive with root permissions. no home drive, a data drive I might put executable's on , ie scripts.

a look up on permissions octal
https://chmodcommand.com/chmod-765/