I'm not terribly familiar with permissions, but after reading man chmod and a couple web sites, I think I have figured how to do what I want.
The computer is a Thinkpad with Fedora 11 x86_64. This computer has two users: jjj (me) and jxj (an alter ego for me that I can log in as when I mess up my own login). I created them both. Both jjj and jxj are members of the group jjj. At the moment all files and folders in /home/jjj/ are owned by jjj:jjj. The only files in /home/jxj/ are configuration files. There is also a root account. And both jjj and jxj are members of the sudoers group. I wish jjj to have full read, write and execute permissions to every file and folder in /home/jjj/. I wish jxj to have the same access to the same files because, if I ever need to log in as jxj, it will be because I need to fix something in jjj's account. Others need no access at all (except for root, of course). So I am planning to do: # cd /home/jjj/ # chmod 644 * I think that will make every file and folder in /home/jjj/ -rw-rw----. First, will that command accomplish what I want? Second, there are a handful of files that are executable; will that command make those files no longer executable? Third, does what I intend to do make sense for a standalone desktop computer in a house occupied by only one person? (Other than connecting occasionally at places like PSU or Free Geek, the only outside connection is through a router to Comcast cable.) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
