On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 7:15 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:43:29 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> ... but before I do that I want to make everything read-only, up to > >> and including maybe the entire drive. > > > >John, > > > >On your linux system run 'chmod 600 *.*'. That makes all files > >readable and writable by only you. > > Never mind. The files were in various folders, and I had to be in one > of the folders before it worked. > > I tried to post this as a reply to my previous reply, but since I was > the sender I got no bounce, so I had nothing to reply to. Oh well. > You want them read only, 600 is read/write. Read by world would be good might work better chmod -R 004 * Bill
