I have an FTP dir that I do the same with and here is the commands I
use, as root:
chown -R nobody.users /FTP (or /common for you)
That makes it so that no one owns it and is thus usable by everyone.
Then:
chmod -R a+rwX just to be sure that everyone has read write and
execute status for everything. The capital X means that if it's
already +x for anyone make it +x for all and if it's not +x for anyone
don't add +x. Keeps plain text files, or anything else, from suddenly
becoming 'executable.'
Hope it helps
Ty
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 2/4/00, 1:56:50 PM, "Lothar Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding [newbie] chmod/chown problems:
> Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in
Linux-Mandrake?
> The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition
of my
> hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all
users to
> be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are drwxr-xr-x. I
would
> prefer them to be drwxrwxrwx. You'd think that "chmod 777 common"
would
> take care of that. When I use the chmod command, though, exactly
nothing
> happens.
> I also have some files which I don't think it's necessary to be
root to
> write to. As it is, they belong to root, and since I can't chmod
them, I
> have to be root to work with them. Normally, I'd solve this with the
chown
> command, but that doesn't work either. When I try the chown command
at
> least something happens however: I get an error message saying
"Operation
> not permitted." Apparently either chmod and chown are used
differently in
> Linux than in Unix, or there is something wrong with my system. Does
> anybody have any suggestions? Thank You. /Ian
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