Permissions

gonus · 08-29-2002, 04:29 PM

How do I set permissions on a folder so that a specific user other than root may read & write to that dir?

Thanx

Gonus

Mara · 08-29-2002, 05:08 PM

You need to use chmod to do this. You can read more about permission system here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...missions+chown
In your case, you need 777, as I can see.

gonus · 08-29-2002, 05:30 PM

That did it. Here is what I did

chgrp root /var/www

this did not give me the permissions all the way down though.

I had to chmod 777 /var/blah/blah for everythign thing down why would that be?

lopezjo49 · 08-29-2002, 06:37 PM

look at the chmod man pages. There's an option to go down through the directories with -r or -R (i can't remember) for recursively.

note: chmod 777 is a little dangerous because it is r w x by anyone.

gonus · 08-29-2002, 09:01 PM

oh, so recusive means on through all dir under? I thought it was something like meaning it was unabel to be undone. ok thanx will go and fix that shortly.

Gonus

Thymox · 08-29-2002, 09:08 PM

I believe that recursive means 'keep on going until you stop'... so chmoding recursively would chmod stuff through all subdirs. And if you did something stupid, like rm -rf /, you could curse recursively at yourself.

Mara · 08-30-2002, 12:31 PM

Usually you don't need 777 for /var/www. What was the reason?

yixudong · 08-30-2002, 01:40 PM

It is easy-----give the whole directory to the user.
chown xxx -r directory xxx is the uid of the user
chmod 700 -r directory

gonus · 08-30-2002, 05:13 PM

I was using 777 just at the time since it worked. now I am going to go back and change the owner to the user and then give 700.

Thanx

Gonus