Summary: This may seem like a stupid newbie question (which I am not), but I haven't really ever had to think about it until now..... When I create a file as t...
Summary: Hi there. was hoping someone could help me. i have a folder that i need to set permissions on. i have a few groups that need diffrent permissions on...
Summary: hello friends, is it possible to set the permission for a particular user & group the way we do in Win NT/2K. As far as i know we can set permission o...
Summary: Hello, I have just installed minix 2.0.0 on my Epson Equity Lt and have created a new group named users (GUI 100) and a new user. Unfortunately t...
Summary: Ok. I have the file test.html. I want 4 different people to be able to write to test.html. I only want 6 other people to be able to read test.html. Ho...
Summary: Hello all - I hope you can help. I've got Samba running fine for home directories. I've also made a shared directory, and am having trouble with the p...
Summary: Hello, I'm having problems with file/folder permissions on a Mandrake 8.1 Samba server. I have a samba share set up called "workarea". The "prod" grou...
Summary: You can use chmod with numeric or symbolic mode. Using chmod with the numeric mode is harder because you have to remember all the number combinations....
Summary: I had the same problem setting up my dial up connection using rh70. I tried to set the permissions on the ttyS0 device to a group called connect and e...
Summary: I understand the use of chmod for a single file or directory, but if you use it ona directory does it replicated down to the sub directories and files...
Summary: That kind of defeats the purpose of having a root user for administration and normal users to work as. You will have to give the user you use to work ...
Summary: That is because you are trying to set file permissions on a FAT partition...which dosn't support it. You could either use UMSDOS instead (although ...
Summary: You can create groups. The way it's done is that you create your users and groups in Linux. You then create the same users, just the users, in Samba. ...
Summary: I did what you said and everything copied over perfectly. I didn't even have to recreate any accounts. By copying those files, They all just showed up...
Summary: I was changing the group permissions on /var/ftp and now I can not use any command in the bin directory. .... I had 2 shell windows open. One I am st...
Summary: I guess you don't have devfs, otherwise you'd get the ttyX symlinks into the vc/ dir automatically. Anyway, you can use the mknod command to create de...
Summary: If you want to set all the files and subdirectories with the same permissions, then you need to use the "R" option, chmod -R 755 homepage (first value...
Summary: Set the file permissions to 770 or 750. You can do this for just the password file. Alternatively (and a good idea anyway), deny access to that dire...
Summary: Please bear with this newbie. Installed 2005LE no problem. Set group called admins Added users to this group, george,bob,bill as root used mkdir -m 0...
Summary: Hi, I have Apache running as user nobody:nbody. My users upload to the web directory using ftp. The files however get created as their defined user an...
Summary: hi, recently I installed a set of icons for KDE and found that the file and groups were invalid still the files existed, but when I wanted to remo...
Summary: see the default umask permissions.if they are perfect see the owner & group of the home directory.if it is root chane the owner to the user....log out...
Summary: It doesn't matter whether the file is owned by root or not, or in fact what any of the permissions are as root will still be able to run it using sh, ...
Summary: I have SuSE 9.1, and I'm trying to mount my NTFS partition. I can mount it as su, and as root, but I can't change its permissions so that I can access...
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