Lee, Maybe you could elaborate on why someone would need or want to do something like this.
Jerry's request just struck me as unusual and not required. Ward On Jul 25, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jul 25, at 9:14 AM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > >> i need to set permissions (read and write) on the local folder >> "images", chmod 777. i do not see a chmod 777 option in get info, and >> don't trust myself in terminal. can someone set me straight? >> >> the path: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/pixelpost_v1.6.0/images/ > > There are three syntaxes that will do this for you > > chmod ugo+rwx filename > chmod a+rwx filename > chmod 777 filename > > If this is a machine on the Internet and this directory can be seen, > these permissions are quite dangerous. They mean that anyone who can > see the directory can do anything they want to it. It's hard to > believe you really need to be this wide open. > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
