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

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