Re: file permissions
The exit for you will be to do an operation as root.
chown glen /home/glen/logfile on each of those files.
Then
chmod 644 /home/glen/logfile
That gets the user read/write permission and everyone else only read
permission. A safety measure perhaps.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> The chmod command mostly uses a two-dimensional matrix. The first column
> is user, the next is group and the third is world. One number for each of
> those.
> Each of those numbers is built with a 4 for read, a 2 for write and a 1
> for execute. So you add those numbers and that's how chmod is put
> together and then there's the sticky bit.
>
>
>
> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
> .
>
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to transfer some files from my Debian via teraterm using scp to
> > my windows computer and I get permission denied.
> > These are log files from /var/logs.
> > I copied them as root from there to my home user folder, and there I did
> > chown 777 on the files, but I still get the permission denied.
> > I then tried to sudo su in the teraterm session, and even logged in as root,
> > I still get the permission denied message.
> > So I copied the two files to /home and got the same error.
> > Is there another way to make these files transferable?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> >
>
>
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