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10 mar 2022 · Yesterday I was able to copy files from Windows to my WSL machine using \\WSL$\home\user\proj. I could also open new files (all from my Windows Explorer). Today, however, I was trying to do same but I got error about needing permission, "Access Denied", and I can't find the reason for this.
What's the path of the file you're trying to modify? Is it on a drvfs mount such as "/mnt/c"? If so, Unix permissions hardly apply to a file in a Windows filesystem. All it can control is the read-only file attribute, which can be set by removing write access for everyone, e.g. chmod 555 filename.
28 gru 2021 · This page details how Linux file permissions are interpreted across the Windows Subsystem for Linux, especially when accessing resources inside of Windows on the NT file system. This documentation assumes a basic understanding of the Linux file system permissions structure and the umask command.
17 maj 2018 · You can't modify the permissions of files on Windows's filesystem using chmod on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. You'll have to copy the private key to your WSL home directory (~) and do it there. Some discussion here: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/81
26 cze 2018 · You should not be manually copying data into the WSL installation from Windows - it will give you this permissions error when you do this. Rather, you should be copying from windows into WSL from within the WSL environment instead. The Windows C drive is located at /mnt/c within WSL.
24 mar 2019 · What this means in practice is that every file has permissions 0777 which causes me issues because git will preserve the execute bit on tracked files. The fix has two pieces: fixing how WSL mounts Windows drives and then fixing the permissions for newly created files. Fixing WSL Mount Permissions
21 sie 2020 · I am using a WSL, ubuntu on windows 10 and I want to set permissions like below but I am receiving an error. Why? How do I fix it? ubuntu-user@LAPTOP:~$ chmod 400 .ssh/MyKey.pem chmod: changing permissions of '.ssh/MyKey.pem': Operation not permitted
