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Sub folder priviledges on server

  • 21 March 2018
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We used this article (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/Content/ReferenceManual/Directory-Account-Permissions.htm) to give permission to write files to the Data file in resources, which was successful to write to that parent folder. We then created subfolders in the Data folder through the web interface for different processes we have. The subfolders say that the owner is 'root' and therefore the fmeserver service account does not have permissions to write to that folder. Is there a way to make it so any subfolder will get the same permissions as the parent folder?


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folder-ownership.png For reference: from puttying into the server we changed the subfolder owner on ''SLOTS" to work, and the other three folders is what the owner looks like without any changes after being created from the web interface.

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This is more of a Linux/Unix question rather than an FME one.

You may want to look into setting default permissions for the data resource folder:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/1315

If that doesn't work, you should contact your sysadmin.

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This is more of a Linux/Unix question rather than an FME one.

You may want to look into setting default permissions for the data resource folder:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/1315

If that doesn't work, you should contact your sysadmin.

Thanks, David! I will try this out.

 

 

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Oh, and another thing: I really hope you're not running any of the FME Server daemons as root!...

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Oh, and another thing: I really hope you're not running any of the FME Server daemons as root!...

I don't believe so, but I am definitely going to confirm with my admin to make sure. Thanks!

 

 

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