chmod permission change?

tidasu · 08-30-2004, 05:33 PM

Hello,

I have over 3 gig files wich got a chmod permission of 500.
This means that only the ROOT can read and execute.
This is rather troubling, cause those documents are vital for my work.

Is there a way to retrieve those documents and set the chmod to a 7777 or so?

Kind regards

berkay · 08-30-2004, 05:38 PM

Go to that directory which all files are in it...

Code:

chmod 777 *.*

must make them all 'rwxrwxrwx'...

Tinkster · 08-30-2004, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tidasu
Hello,

I have over 3 gig files wich got a chmod permission of 500.
This means that only the ROOT can read and execute.
This is rather troubling, cause those documents are vital for my work.

Is there a way to retrieve those documents and set the chmod to a 7777 or so?

Kind regards

What do you mean by retrieve, where are they?

egag · 08-30-2004, 05:46 PM

well....i think it should be ' chmod 777 * '
(leave out the dot , that's DOS i think...)

egag

amfoster · 08-30-2004, 05:47 PM

The above works fine if the directory the files sit in is accessible by other as well. Make sure the directory itself is open also. You may want to set the directory permissions to 1777 which will also set the stickbit on the directory. That way when the files are rw to everyone, the only person that can delete the files is the actual owner of the file.

I'd suggest
chmod 177 /dirname
chmod 666 * /dirname/*

There probably isn't any reason to make the files executable if they aren't scripts; thus 666 vice 777

-tf

berkay · 08-30-2004, 05:49 PM

I tried they both worked! But * is better because it is shorter than *.* (2 chars )

egag · 08-30-2004, 05:59 PM

*.* will adress all files with a ''.'' in it , * will adress all.
( at least, that's what i think...

)

egag

tidasu · 08-30-2004, 06:02 PM

yah, chmod 7777 dir and chmod 7777 * works, thanks!!
You have helped me a lot