Hai all,

I have a folder to be changed for acces rights.

The folder is permission is

drwxr-xr-x

and need to be changed to

drwxrwxr-x

I referred the below pointers :

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_UNIX_f...ssions_work%3F
http://www.washington.edu/computing/...rmissions.html

but still helpless. Please advise.

Kai

What commands have you tried executing. Did you get any errors?

What exact commands have you used and what happened?

First of all, what file system is the directory on? If it is a Linux filesystem such as ext4, use the chmod command. If it is on a fat32 or ntfs filesystem, then you can't change the permissions of a single directory, only all of them in the mount command options.

chmod ug=rwx,o=rx <dirname>
same as
chmod 0775 <dirname>


You should provide more information. Such as where the directory is. In your $HOME directory?

Also, which user are you logged in as, and does that user account have permission to modify files & folder permissions wherever you are trying

"drwxr-xr-x" means "A directory (d), having all read/write/execute (rwx i.e. 4+2+1=7) permissions for owner, read/execute (r-x i.e. 4+0+1=5) for group, and read/execute (r-x i.e. 4+0+1=5) for others". Or, in order words, permission is simply 755. And you can sum up it as:
And if you want to change it to "drwxrwxr-x", then it means you want to change it to "all read/write/execute (rwx i.e. 4+2+1=7) permissions for owner, all read/write/execute (rwx i.e. 4+2+1=7) permissions for group, and read/execute (r-x i.e. 4+0+1=5) for others" i.e. you want to set it to 775. Therefore do it as:

Other resource: http://tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-...rmissions.html