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adam
Asked: 2013-11-09 18:02:38 +0800 CST

change directory, subdirectory, folder and file permissions in ubuntu GUI

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I am having problems installing, upgrading and deleting Wordpress plugins on my VM-Virtual Box LAMP server.

I have read that the issue has something to do with permissions that are assigned in my var/www/wp-content folder.

I am a windows user and rather new to ubuntu terminal. I am finding that so many so called "experts" here provide all sorts of code in order to fix this problem in the terminal, however, when i follow those commands in the terminal i seem to do more harm than good to my ubuntu instillation and the wordpress problem is not being resolved (and it also seems a lot of others encounter similar issues).

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how i can bulk change directory, folder and file permissions in Ubuntu using the GUI. (It can be done quite easily in windows GUI surely Ubuntu has a similar option)

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  1. how i can bulk change directory, folder and file permissions in Ubuntu using the GUI.

    What you want to do is a admin task so you need nautilus in administration mode. From a terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T or dash, "terminal") issue:

    sudo nautilus
    • enter password;
    • navigate to directory
    • Right click on empty space in the main window of nautilus
    • Click on properties and go to tab permissions
    • Change permissons to what you need

    Example of a random directory from my system (/var/tmp/):

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    The highlighted part does the files inside the directory.

    2 comments:

    • Linux is multi user so we need to do this in a different way than Windows does. Our method has to also take into account that there are more than 1 user on the system (and in single user mode there is still you as user and you as administrator).

    • Do not forget to exit Nautilus. Using it as administrator can destroy your system.

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