Jayaprakash A forced the electrons to say:
> I'm sorry.. about looking like such a fool. it has got to do with the chmod
> command. could someone really take sometime and explain to me the workings
> of this command. i tried using the man pages i could make out some of the
> stuff. but am still clueless about the following:
> 1) how do i change a setting (as root) for a particular user.
chmod changes the user permissions to any file. If you would tell us
what you don't understand about chmod, then we will try to help you.
Your question 1 is answered in chmod's man page, so please be specific
as to what you don't understand. I cannot be better than the man page.
> 2)how does one get to the magic figure in octal.. i mean how does one go
> about calcualting it.
read = 4, write = 2, execute = 1. That is usually enough. Add up to get
the permission values. If you need to change perms from a program, then
post in LIP and i'd try to help you.
Binand
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