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  • Sean Flanagan
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    "mike is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

    Posted February 24, 2018 10:02pm by Sean Flanagan
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    Permissions for different groups.

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    what is cat hello.txt

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  • Gleb Albovsky
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    Accessing the file

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  • James Barrett
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    Trying to change the group owner of a file however this error message is displaying?

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  • Faisal Julaidan
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    What is sudo?

    Posted August 10, 2016 2:26pm by Faisal Julaidan
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  • Sebastian Eguez
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    What is "cd home"?

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  • Benjamin Hedgepeth
    Benjamin Hedgepeth
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    Changes to hello.txt under a different user

    Posted April 3, 2016 7:27pm by Benjamin Hedgepeth
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  • Brian Patterson
    Brian Patterson
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    How can reset my console

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    I can change file ownership even if Iยดm not the owner

    Posted September 16, 2015 1:08am by Arturo Montero
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  • Bhanu Awasthi
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    Why changing ownership to "mike" doesnt allow user to write, since a user is allowed with permissions "rw-"

    Posted August 9, 2015 3:33pm by Bhanu Awasthi
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  • Nathan LaBrake
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    Why does it keep saying "mike is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." i cannot follow along.

    Posted July 5, 2015 3:27am by Nathan LaBrake
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  • Brandon Feinstein
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    What is the treehouse password? I started up the tutorial again after a few days off.

    Posted June 26, 2015 6:34pm by Brandon Feinstein
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  • Martynas Kairys
    Martynas Kairys
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    Hi, why did you type these 2 commands: 1."chown mike hello.txt" why typing this one? 2."sudo chown mike hello.txt"

    Posted May 22, 2015 6:20am by Martynas Kairys
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  • SERGIO RODRIGUEZ
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    [SOLVED] How can I change only the group owner of a file ?

    Posted January 14, 2015 10:52pm by SERGIO RODRIGUEZ
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  • jose yanez
    jose yanez
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    Does the superuser have ultimate authority over file permission?

    Posted June 15, 2014 2:43am by jose yanez
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  • Prabal Dutta
    Prabal Dutta
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    Understanding the group permission?

    Posted March 27, 2014 6:20am by Prabal Dutta
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