aubuti;237132 Wrote:
> Giving everyone read/write/execute permissions is unnecessarily risky.
> Just imagine some bug in slimserver code that goes on to overwrite your
> music library. Not likely to occur, but still a possibility, and so easy
> to avoid....
>
> My music files are owned by me and writable by me, and read-only for
> everyone else. The easiest way to do this in unix/linux is by going to
> the top level music directory and typing the following 2 commands. The
> first allows anyone to traverse the music directory tree, and only the
> owner can create/delete/modify that tree. The second gives r/w
> permission to the owner and read-only to group and world.
>
> find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
> find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Hmm, I believe I remember why I didn't do this. I tried this out, and
it didn't work ("operation not permitted") until I ran it as root using
sudo, and then all permissions were changed to root, so that's no good.
Oddly there were several artists whose folders weren't altered! They
seem to be recent ones.
Should this have worked in Ubuntu 7.04, which normally runs as a
limited-permissions user and requires super-user operations to run as
root?
--
Mark Lanctot
'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39502
_______________________________________________
unix mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
