On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:52:55PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > 'chmod -R o+r targetdir' should work, but you might want to be wary about > proceeding to muck with your OS... heh heh. > So, are you particularly worried about the lost+found directory? > I think it is a place for OS recovery of lost files or inodes... > maybe someone can confirm that?
Yes, there should be one in every partition (at least for ext[23], don't have one until needed for OpenBSD's ffs). > BTW, you can also 'chown -R me:me targetdir' where me:me is the user:group > of your normal user... I believe the permissions on the lost+found directory are such because there could be such things as copies of keys or passwd files in there. I wouldn't change them. I'd use sudo. The sudo program allows users to run commands as other users. For example, you could read the files in lost+found as root. Setting up and using sudo can be a little confusing at times, but if you decide to install it (which I and others on the list have suggested to people in the past), read sudo(8) and sudoers(5), and ask questions to the list :) > ciao and happy NYE, swizzle > | As root (using Konsole Super User) I tried chmod +r+w+x lost+found but no > | success. I also tried other variations but no success. # chmod ugo+rwx /whatever -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
