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Changing file permissions?
Name: Tom Date: January 1, 2002 at 12:10:29 Pacific
Comment:
I want to change to file permission of all files in a directory, and all the files in the subdirectories of that directory. So anything in the directory is writable to all. How would i do this?
Name: Ryan Date: January 1, 2002 at 12:40:07 Pacific
Reply:
CHMOD is the command your looking for. With this command you are able to declare file permissions for different groups. Many times people would chmod 755 so the owner has full permissions and others have partial if they would like scripts executed on the web etc. Do a man chmod for more information. hth
-Ryan
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Response Number 2
Name: jayt Date: January 28, 2002 at 07:24:44 Pacific
Summary: i am not quite sure exactly what you are referring to... but i'm guessing that you have two boxes. one is a linux samba server and the other is an XP Pro box. your problem is that when you copy files ...
Summary: First thing is that there some things that even su can't do so you must login as root. If you can't read passwd file as su than you must change permission on that file but be careful what you are doin...
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