11:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] group permissions
This depends on what exactly you mean to do.
Do you mean to change the group of all files / subdirectories of the
directory? If so, you can use 'chgrp -R newgroup directoryname'.
Do you want to change only the ownership
Hi Mithrilhall,
What you need to do is audit your system permissions. Make certain that
the all permissions are very restrictive. Here is an example:
/home
drwxr-x--x 15 root adm 4096 Feb 14 01:53 ./
drwxr-x--x 21 root adm 1024 Feb 9 01:18 ../
drwx--5
Could someone post an example showing how to change permissions for a
certain group.
Example:
I have a group by the name of anonymous with one user name anonymous
belonging in the group. I want to be able to set permissions for group
anonymous on certain directories. If someone could post an
This depends on what exactly you mean to do.
Do you mean to change the group of all files / subdirectories of the
directory? If so, you can use 'chgrp -R newgroup directoryname'.
Do you want to change only the ownership of the directory itself?
Use 'chgrp newgroup directoryname'.
Michael
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