Kartik, I am assuming ur question is is it safe to give RWX permissions to all users to all the files ? answer is Big NO ! especially you need to be very careful not to mess with the permissions /bin or /sbin and many of the configuration files present in the etc
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Kartik Nayak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > Just read the mail by Saifi on 'newbie/n00b is an asset', so am daring to > ask this question (although it may be a very simple thing for most of you). > In Linux, there are 3 sets of users: myself, my group and others. Others, i > think, stands for all the users of the system. Dont knw abt my group!!! Many > a times i get messages saying 'Permsission Denied' and then i have to change > the permissions to read-write-execute using chmod. For someone like me, > where there is only one user for linux, i hope its safe to give RWX > permissions to all users to all the files when needed. > > Regards, > Kartik Nayak > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Thanks & Regards, Siddu [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
