On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:24:13PM -0800, Jayaprakash A merrily said:
> 1) how do i change a setting (as root) for a particular user.
- chmod user filename(s)
For making "user" the owner of "filename(s)"
- chmod user.group filename(s)
For making "user" the owner of "filename(s)" and giving "group"
group owner permission to the files
> 2)how does one get to the magic figure in octal.. i mean how does one go
> about calcualting it.
the octal number is of the format "0xyz"
where x is the permissions of user owning the file
y is the permissions of group owning the file
z is the permissions of anyother
permissions are calculated as
1 - Execute(for files)/Chdir(for directories) permission
2 - Write permission
4 - Read permission
add a combination of these numbers to calculate the required octal
number. e.g. to give user read-write-execute , group read-execute
and anyother just execute permissions, the required octal number
is:
0 (1+2+4) (1+4) (1)
or 0751
Hope that helps
regards,
Sandip
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