On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:49:12 -0800 Mike Connors <[email protected]> dijo:
>John Jason Jordan wrote: >> 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----. >Actually, chmod 644 * will change the perms for all the files in >/home/jjj to: >-rw-r--r-- Oh! I guess it needs to be 664 to be -rw-rw----. >> Second, there are a handful of files that are executable; will that >> command make those files no longer executable? >Yes! That's a problem. At first I thought I could just figure out how to make the ls command display only files with the x set. I haven't succeeded in figuring that out yet, but I did do ls -l on the main ~/ folder. I discovered that my files are a bigger mess than I thought. As a rough guess, about one in ten files is set to be executable, including just ordinary data files. There really are just half a dozen in my home folder that need to remain executable - a few shell scripts, and binaries for things like XaraLX, Acroread, and so on. Even if I got ls -l to display only the files that are executable it would be a very long list because of all the files that are set to be executable and shouldn't be. Nautilus informs me that ~/ contains over 60,000 files. If one out of ten is executable, that is a lot of files to look through manually. >> Third, does what I intend to do make sense for a standalone desktop >> computer in a house occupied by only one person? >I guess, in as much as it does what you want to do... >But why not just create a group, put both users in that group, and >then set the file perms for the group level. The group jjj already exists (created automatically by Fedora during installation when I set myself up as user jjj). When I created jxj I made him a member of jjj also. So setting the permissions for the group jjj might make more sense. But then I need to do something about umask. Because in the future when jjj creates a file the permissions will be wrong. It is difficult for people on the list to understand what a mess the permissions on my files are without looking over my shoulder. The next Clinic is only four days away. I am wondering if this might make a good thing to get help with there. Maybe a mini-tutorial on permissions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
