Thank you for your response Manish, Anirudh and Siddu. Regards, Kartik Nayak
----- Original Message ----- From: "manish kumar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [twincling] Linux Permissions > You can use these permission depending your data. > > 644 for data stored in removable devices. You can do read/write your songs > movies files etc. > 755 for programs/binaries stored in your collections. read/execute > permission is all you would need here. > 777 when nothing seems to work. > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Siddu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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]<kartik1507%40gmail.com>> >> 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] >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > http://twincling.org/ > http://twitter.com/twincling > ---------------------------------------- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
