Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering if

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-09T05:41:33Z, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Out of curiosity, how is it that your permissions were different after the restore than before? -- Kirk Strauser 94 outdated ports on the box,

changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-08 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering if there was a perl or shell script that would do this?

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

2004-04-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering if there was a perl or