How can I give full permission to folder and subfolder

Question

I'm new to Ubuntu and need to create a new folder in /var and need all users on the machine to have full permissions to this folder.

How should I proceed?

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Do you want to create a folder in /var that has full permission for all users??? There is already one! and it's called tmp! — Fabby, Jan 11 '16 at 22:49
Thanks for replying , yes that i want to do but please what do you mean by There is already one! and it's called tmp! — sam, Jan 11 '16 at 22:54
/tmp is a system directory with a temporary filesystem which uses RAM memory. Anything put there will be deleted upon reboot. — Eduardo Cola, Jan 11 '16 at 23:05
@EduardoCola: it actually uses disk, but yes, it's deleted upon reboot! (You can see this happening when you remove quiet splash from the boot parameters...) ;-) — Fabby, Jan 11 '16 at 23:12

Fabby · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-18T21:57:04.683

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Press Ctrl+Alt+T to go to a terminal and type:

sudo mkdir /var/szDirectoryName
sudo chmod a+rwx /var/szDirectoryName

Where szDirectoryName is the name of the directory you would like, a means "all" (users) + means "add the following rights" and rwx means read, write and execute respectively...

Note: there already is such a directory in /var which all users have access to: tmp (full path: /var/tmp) which itself is symlinked to /tmp.
Beware however that all files in /tmp are deleted at boot time.

For any further information, here is a great resource on all directories in Linux.

edited Jul 18 '19 at 21:57

answered Jan 11 '16 at 22:56

Fabby

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but what is that mean after i executed your command i got total 0 when i wrote ls -l /var/nameoffolder? – sam Jan 11 '16 at 23:04
i know that command ls .. used for listing what is in that folder but -l give me the permissions rigth ? – sam Jan 11 '16 at 23:08
sorry , you edited your answer with statement i want to ask about there is already a directory in /var that all users have access to: tmp which is symlinked to /tmp this means that folders that i will created in /var will be deleted liken in /tmp – sam Jan 11 '16 at 23:21
After this i am still getting error -bash: cd: folder: Permission denied , when trying cd folder – YourHelper May 14 '22 at 17:56
@YourHelper Please ask a new question and provide more details there as to what goes wrong where exactly... It might help to include a link to this question for reference. – Fabby May 14 '22 at 23:32

score 89 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '17 at 07:58

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Open Terminal

Create Directory with mkdir:

sudo mkdir /var/DirectoryName

To give all permissions to a folder give chmod -R 777:

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/DirectoryName

answered Jul 10 '17 at 07:58

Pradeep Kumar

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This works for me, since I also need to give all the sub folders the permissions. – Blues Clues Jul 14 '20 at 03:06
Do we need to type full path here? – Goran_Ilic_Ilke Feb 19 '21 at 07:43
yes. we need to move to the path or we need to type the full path for the folder – Pradeep Kumar Feb 23 '21 at 05:56

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 12 '21 at 08:39

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Below gives all permissions to everybody to all files and subdirectories:

chmod -R a+rwx path

answered Oct 12 '21 at 08:39

Shital Shah

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Is this true for any new files/directories made or only for existing files and directories? – Rafael Zasas Oct 09 '22 at 19:39

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 12 '23 at 14:56

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To give all permissions to all the users, use the following command:

chmod -R a+rwx /path/....

Note: It's Usually not recommended to give every user every permission of a directory, be careful while using this command.

To give permissions to a specific user:

sudo chown -R username:grouname /folder_path

edited Oct 12 '23 at 14:56

Syed M. Sannan

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answered Nov 20 '22 at 15:12

Nooriallah

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