On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I need too change the permissions on an entire directory tree. [eg /public] what is 
>the easiest way to do this.  I wish to give everybody rights to a certain folder and 
>all the contents inside.

try this 
chmod -R a+wrx /public
the -R tells it to change recusivly 

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> Is it possible to keep the rights above set to even thing created afterwards?  [ie 
>user1 creates a folder user2 wants to use it as well.]
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> Regards
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> Mike Freeman
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