How do I get permission to list files?
4 Answers. If you want to see the the permission of a file you can use ls -l /path/to/file command.
How do I check file permissions or drives?
Step 2 – Right-click the folder or file and click “Properties” in the context menu. Step 3 – Switch to “Security” tab and click “Advanced”. Step 4 – In the “Permissions” tab, you can see the permissions held by users over a particular file or folder.
Why can I not write even though I have group permissions?
This fails to work without relogin if you’ve just added yourself to the staff group, but you may set the permission only for yourself for the current session. I had an issue when a user could not access the /foo/bar/baz directory even when he had permissions because he did not have an access to the bar directory.
How to get new files to inherit group permissions?
It sounds like you’re describing the setgid bit functionality where when a directory that has it set, will force any new files created within it to have their group set to the same group that’s set on the parent directory. This will give you approximately what it sounds like you want.
How to make all files accessible to a group?
Run mount -o remount,acl / to activate ACLs without rebooting. Also install the ACL command line tools getfacl and setfacl, typically provided in a package called acl. Now that the one-time setup is over, change the directory’s ACL to give the group write permissions and to make these permissions inherited by newly created files.
How to make a new Git file group writeable?
However, new files will typically be created so that they’re only user-writeable, not group-writeable. (i.e. if you run touch foo; ls -l foo you’ll see the permissions mask as -rw-r–r– .) To have new files you create be group-writeable by default, add umask 0002 to the end of your .profile or .bash_profile file.