I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"? Is this an isolated incident?



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I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone
else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not
write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"?
Is this an isolated incident?

I don't know why your having problems. I run slackware myself and have had problems with permissions at times. Maybe a file was created by root and others
can't read it?

When I've had problems I chown the directory along with all the files and directories within.

chown -R username:group /sbbs

If you run that command as root it'll change the ownership of all the files and
directories in /sbbs to the user and group you provide.

I hope that'll help.

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Re: Ubuntu Upgrade 18.05
By: Alan Ianson to Steven Wolf on Fri May 17 2019 09:05 am

Some files would not write. The upgrade was on two different machines.
Does anyone know of a "fix"? Is this an isolated incident?

chown -R username:group /sbbs

I hope that'll help.

Thanks for that. The problem was on my laptop. I don't have /sbbs on it. The problem was with by browsers. I could not log on to any accounts that required a user name and password. I also couldn't access some files with the file manager. Anyway I just wiped it clean and went back to 16.04. Everything is back to normal again. I didn't need to upgrade but I did anyway. I won't do that again. Thanks for the reply.

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I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone
else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not
write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"?
Is this an isolated incident?

I don't know why your having problems. I run slackware myself and have had problems with permissions at times. Maybe a file was created by root and others
can't read it?

When I've had problems I chown the directory along with all the files and directories within.

chown -R username:group /sbbs

If you run that command as root it'll change the ownership of all the files and
directories in /sbbs to the user and group you provide.

I hope that'll help.

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I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"? Is this an isolated incident?



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