Changing ownership of libraries installed on python virtual environment

Question

I created a python virtual environment using root user and installed 9 python libraries on the virtual environment using the same user. The root access has been revoked now and am unable to access libraries using my own userid (that is not root).

How can we change the permission of the libraries so that my userid can access them?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '21 at 13:48

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You can fix the issue by changing UNIX file permissions pack to your user. Try:

$ sudo chown -R USERNAME /Users/USERNAME/Library/Logs/pip
$ sudo chown -R USERNAME /Users/USERNAME/Library/Caches/pip

then pip should be able to write those files again.

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answered Sep 16 '21 at 13:48

Lukas Juskevicius

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Thank you ! But what if 4-5 users want to use the same package? Do we have to changing the permission to every user in that group? – vvazza Sep 16 '21 at 13:53
The chgrp command changes the group ownership of a file. The basic syntax is as follows − $ chgrp group filelist – Lukas Juskevicius Sep 16 '21 at 13:57
You can read more on that in this website https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-file-permission.htm – Lukas Juskevicius Sep 16 '21 at 13:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '21 at 13:49

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The only user that is allowed to change the ownership or permissions of a file that they do not themselves own is the superuser (regular users can "super user do" using sudo, of course, but this is an exception that must be granted by the root user). In other words, you need someone with root access to change the ownership or access permissions.

answered Sep 16 '21 at 13:49

Jose Fernando Lopez Fernandez

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Thank you ! Let me ask the person with root access to change the permissions. Our team has 4-5 users. How can we assign permission so that the entire team, not just my userid, can access the packages? – vvazza Sep 16 '21 at 13:55

Changing ownership of libraries installed on python virtual environment

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