RE: Directory permissions

2003-01-22 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
irectory. - -Tom - -Original Message- From: Richard S. Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Directory permissions You shouldn't have to. Setting chmod 777 on the directory should do it just fine. On the other hand

RE: Directory permissions

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Langhorst
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard S. Crawford Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Directory permissions You shouldn't have to. Setting chmod 777 on the directory should do it just fine. On the other hand, Bret might be right as well.

RE: Directory permissions

2003-01-21 Thread Richard S. Crawford
Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Directory permissions > > > # mkdir /openDirectory > # chmod 777 -R /openDirectory > > is one way to do it, but probably kind of clunky and insecure. It&#

RE: Directory permissions

2003-01-21 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Richard S. Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Directory permissions # mkdir /openDirectory # chmod 777 -R /openDirectory is one way to do it, but probably kind of clunky and insecure. It's worked on my system. You mig

Re: Directory permissions

2003-01-21 Thread Richard S. Crawford
# mkdir /openDirectory # chmod 777 -R /openDirectory is one way to do it, but probably kind of clunky and insecure. It's worked on my system. You might also want to look into the umask command. On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 13:16, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: S

Re: Directory permissions

2003-01-21 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:16, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey gang, > > I'd leike to set up a directory such that anytime a file is written > to that directory, it is created chmod 777, regardless of who creates > it, or how it is created. A

Directory permissions

2003-01-21 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey gang, I'd leike to set up a directory such that anytime a file is written to that directory, it is created chmod 777, regardless of who creates it, or how it is created. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Tom --

Re: file - directory permissions

2002-09-04 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:19:16AM -0400, Timothy Writer wrote: > I recommend using find in combination with xargs instead of -exec. Like > this: > > find -type f -print | xargs chmod 644 > find -type d -print | xargs chmod 755 I agree about xargs, but use the NUL options: U

Re: file - directory permissions

2002-09-04 Thread Timothy Writer
ssage- > From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 September 2002 11:18 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: file - directory permissions > > > Hi > > We run a few virtual web servers and often get people who have changed the > permissions

RE: file - directory permissions

2002-09-04 Thread Gordon McDowall
Thanks for that Phil, my brain seems to be out to lunch today :o) -Original Message- From: Skuse, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 September 2002 11:28 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: file - directory permissions how about find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; fin

RE: file - directory permissions

2002-09-04 Thread Skuse, Phil
how about find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; -Original Message- From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 September 2002 11:18 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: file - directory permissions Hi We run a few virtual web s

file - directory permissions

2002-09-04 Thread Gordon McDowall
Hi We run a few virtual web servers and often get people who have changed the permissions of many of the directories and files within their website root directory. Has anyone ever seen/written a script that would reset the permissions on everything below their root directory ie files to 644 but

Re: Users and their file/directory Permissions.

2002-07-06 Thread Jay Daniels
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 02:44, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 02:12 06 Jul 2002, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I am also interested in this topic. According to the man page chroot > | would work something like this as users shell but I can't get it work > | even though I copied /bin/bash t

Re: Users and their file/directory Permissions.

2002-07-05 Thread Keith Morse
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Ted Gervais wrote: > > What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in > their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was > wondering if there is a way to stop that. Maybe set the permissions or > something so they have

Re: Users and their file/directory Permissions.

2002-07-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02:12 06 Jul 2002, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I am also interested in this topic. According to the man page chroot | would work something like this as users shell but I can't get it work | even though I copied /bin/bash to /home/login/bin | | chroot /home/login /home/login/bin/ba

Re: Users and their file/directory Permissions.

2002-07-05 Thread Jay Daniels
On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 23:46, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15:58 05 Jul 2002, Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in > | their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was > | wondering if there

Re: Users and their file/directory Permissions.

2002-07-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:58 05 Jul 2002, Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in | their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was | wondering if there is a way to stop that. Maybe set the permissions or | somet

Users and their file/directory Permissions.

2002-07-05 Thread Ted Gervais
What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was wondering if there is a way to stop that. Maybe set the permissions or something so they have to remain in their own home directory?? Is that

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-08 Thread Andreas Berglund
Chris Montgomery wrote: > > Thanks for the comeback, Andreas. Comments inline below. > You're welcome. > > Generally though it's better to be root when installing things. > > > > Since I am the only user on this machine, would this really matter? My > impression was that if programs are goin

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Montgomery
Thanks for the comeback, Andreas. Comments inline below. On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:46:09 +0100 Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have access to the root account then just become root and type > "chown your_account_name /usr/local". With the chown command the owner > of a file

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Tammy Fox
To write to your Windows directory (assuming it is vfat), add a line like this to your /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfatnoauto,users,owner 0 0 and mount the partition while logged in as your normal user account (mount /mnt/win). Then, the files will be owned by you. This give

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Andreas Berglund
Chris Montgomery wrote: > > Newbie alert... > > I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory, > as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory > (/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I > change this to my user account? If you ha

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread gabriel
ED] > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:25:44 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Changing Directory Permissions > > Newbie alert... > > I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory, > as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory > (/usr/local/

Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Montgomery
Newbie alert... I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory, as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory (/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I change this to my user account? I have the same question about being able to writ

Re: File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Mead
- Original Message - From: Jeff Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: File and Directory Permissions : Hi Guys, : : It's been a while, but I just threw together a Redhat 7.0 FTP server and : have a ve

Re: File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-13 Thread Marco Shaw
> It's been a while, but I just threw together a Redhat 7.0 FTP server and > have a very basic question which has stumped me. Forgive me for what I am > about to ask, but someone knows how to do this: Another route is if you plan to use WU-FTPD. It also has powerful configuration features. Mar

Re: File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jeff, > I have a group of customers, each has unique username and password, all > belong to the same group. > They can also see the root which will contain all the other > directories but access will be denied because of the 700 permissions. Now, I > wish to create a user, cal

File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-13 Thread Jeff Graves
Hi Guys, It's been a while, but I just threw together a Redhat 7.0 FTP server and have a very basic question which has stumped me. Forgive me for what I am about to ask, but someone knows how to do this: I have a group of customers, each has unique username and password, all belo