Linux permissions (yet again.... and again)

[johnsonb 12]

Hello all. I was struggling with Mint and permissions using external drives. I then mounted the drives inside the case and I am still having file permission troubles. I tried

 

chown emby.emby /media// -R
chmod 755 /media//

then 

chown -R emby /media/bj/Media-3T

chgrp -R emby /media/bj/Media-3T

with no luck. I can't be too far off. The drive with the media is /media/bj/Media-3T

thanks, Bj

 

 

[mastrmind11 722]

what permissions does media, bj, and media-3t have?  run ls -l on all 3 folders and post the outputs here.

[johnsonb 12]

Hi. I'd love to pass on that info however I locked myself out of the /media directory. A a regular user I get 'permission denied'. I tried to see if I can see the new drives at all and with sudo nemo I see no new  drives.

My fault for trying 72 different things I saw online - chown, setfacl etc.

Other than re-installing Mint (which I do not want to do, its dual boot and it was tricky getting it just right) what can I do to get back to regular permissions.

Bj 

[sargenthp 35]

Switch to root:  sudo su -

Change your media folder and bj ownership back to root...
     chown root:root /media
     chmod 755 /media
     chown root:root /media/bj
     chmod 755 /media/bj

Now I would check the permissions on your /media/bj/Media-3T.

What I like to use for emby is using facls.  So for example to make the user emby to have full rights to /media/bj/Media-3T and all subfolders, plus get that by default for newly added content...  setfacl -Rm u:emby:rwx,d:u:emby:rwx /media/bj/Media-3T

Once you do that I like to switch to the emby user and verify that I can get to the content...  
  sudo -u emby /bin/bash
  cd /media/bj/Media-3T
  ls -l

 

I also personally like to mount my drives to a specific location other than auto mounting within media.  So I created entries within /etc/fstab for each external drive I have.  But the drives must be connected at all times.

Edited July 6, 2021 by sargenthp

[johnsonb 12]

33 minutes ago, sargenthp said:

Switch to root:  sudo su -

Change your media folder and bj ownership back to root...
     chown root:root /media
     chmod 755 /media
     chown root:root /media/bj
     chmod 755 /media/bj

Now I would check the permissions on your /media/bj/Media-3T.

What I like to use for emby is using facls.  So for example to make the user emby to have full rights to /media/bj/Media-3T and all subfolders, plus get that by default for newly added content...  setfacl -Rm u:emby:rwx,d:u:emby:rwx /media/bj/Media-3T

Once you do that I like to switch to the emby user and verify that I can get to the content...  sudo -u emby /bin/bash

I thank you so very much sargenthp! Emby sees my video library perfectly. I'm nothing short of giddy!

thanks again, Bj

[Luke 42079]

2 hours ago, johnsonb said:

I thank you so very much sargenthp! Emby sees my video library perfectly. I'm nothing short of giddy!

thanks again, Bj

Thanks for the feedback.