> I'm not terribly familiar with permissions, but after reading man chmod > and a couple web sites, I think I have figured how to do what I want.
A good way to test things like this is to create yourself a sandbox, so that you can find out if what you're planning will screw things up or not. You could just make yourself a directory like '/tmp/test', copy or create a handful of files there, and then play around. It's a lot easier to learn these things with hands-on practice and faster than waiting around for responses from a mailing list. > I wish jjj to have full read, write and execute permissions to every > file and folder in /home/jjj/. I wish jxj to have the same access to > the same files because, if I ever need to log in as jxj, it will be > because I need to fix something in jjj's account. Others need no access > at all (except for root, of course). > > So I am planning to do: > > # cd /home/jjj/ > # chmod 644 * > > I think that will make every file and folder in /home/jjj/ -rw-rw----. As you've already been told, no, and particularly surprising would be the effect of removing the executable bit from your directories. Here's a script I wrote a while ago because I was having to do this repeatedly and it was easier to give someone else sudo access to run it than to teach them the correct chmod command: http://nakedape.cc/svn/public/trunk/small-projects/sys-utils/fixgrp Wil _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
