Permissions on dev.endevour

rsync episode IV - a sudo hope

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

With all those earlier rsync bumps out of the way, I was ready to try my first rsync backup at the command line to sync my movies directory on the NAS to a (NTFS formatted) USB drive plugged into the same NAS. This is to be one of the simplest since there’s no remote server involved, just copying from mount point directory to another - so no drama with remote permissions.

Could it be a permissions problem?

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Unix, and therefore Linux, was built from the ground up as a multi-user system. Thanks to this, great security is baked in, for example every file has permission attributes for it’s owner, the group the owner is a member of, and then everyone. For example, it might be a good idea if I can read, write and execute my own files, but the other members of my group can just read them, and any other user on the system has none of those rights.

Folder ownership problems with Jellyfin

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After being so blase about the file permissions when mounting the share to the Linux file system, and testing that root could read and write to the share, I ran into problems immediately when trying to add the media folder as a library in Jellyfin - getting the error “The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again.”

I definitely had the path correct - I could copy it from the dialog and cd to it at the CLI. So I suspected it was a permissions thing. The app might not have read permissions for the directory.