On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:56:54PM -0600, Brashers, Bart -- MFG, Inc. wrote:
>
> I did this because people were constantly forgetting to chmod files they
> created. Setting umask to 002 would also make files they create in their
> own home directories (/home/user) public, which is not right. I don't know
> of a way to set umask to 022 for some directories and not for others. The
> man page for chmod doesn't list a switch like --preserve-ctimes.
>
You can use something like
find . -type d ! -perm 777 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 777
find . -type f ! -perm 666 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 777
and only change necessary permissions. Probably needs GNU findutils
AFAIK GNUtar uses ctime, because ctime is the only timestamp
which cannot be set backwards.
Ciao
Dietmar
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