In my college we have only little permission to use files.i need to copy some C programs from other users to my account.
I cannot copy it to /tmp and then copy it back to my account from there, because
the cp and mv commands are blocked here.
When I copy something to tmp we cannot even have the read permission on it.
Can you please give a good solution for this?
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We see that the admin pretty much tied all your hands not to be able to perform tasks like this. I guess the best solution would be to write a message directly to him/her and ask for a solution on your problem.
2Do you have access to mounting USB drives? Perhaps you could also create a /home/you/tmp and using that instead of /tmp . Of course, this also assumes that you do not have sudo privileges. If you are able to use sudo, then you could also do as CYREX says.
2if you can use scp you can do:
scp other_user_login@localhost:/home/other_user_login/file_you_need .from your account and in the diretory you want to put the file.
(you can also change the . to the file location you want on your account)
(other_user_login password will be asked of course)
3You can try to use python web server in your friend's directory:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000and connect from your user with firefox using . If it works, you'll see the directory where the webserver was started and you will be able to "download" the files to your user.
Maybe you'll have to do this on 2 different machines (and change localhost:8000 to proper ip or name of course) because you can't close the terminal running the web server.
As laurent-rpnet mentioned use SCP. If this service is disabled then you can also try ftp.
try : ftp 0 This will connect to the same machine. and provide the username and password of your friend.
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