Directory privileges

setkos · 04-03-2007, 05:04 AM

Hello,

I remove all privileges from not empty directory which belongs to me. Now I am not able to do anything with it. I know it was stupid

...is there any way to mange this issue without root action...?

jay73 · 04-03-2007, 06:08 AM

Without root action? No, you'll have to either use su - or at least sudo and then cd to the directory in question and do:

chmod -r 644 * (without execute permissions), or chmod -r 755 (with), or use any other combination of permissions that suits you better.

setkos · 04-03-2007, 12:10 PM

So I have to talk with Admin, because sudo doesn't work with my username?

jschiwal · 04-03-2007, 12:21 PM

Did you change the permissions of the directory itself?

What does "ls -ld <directory-name>" show. Even if you had used "chmod 000 directory", you will be able to use
"chmod 766 <directory-name>" to undo what you did. If you are the owner of the directory, you will be able to use "chmod" on it to restore its permissions.

demonstration:

Code:

mkdir testdir2
mkdir: cannot create directory `testdir2': File exists
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> touch testdir2/testfile1
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> touch testdir2/testfile2
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> touch testdir2/testfile3
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> chmod 000 testdir2
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> ls testdir2
ls: cannot open directory testdir2: Permission denied
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> ls -ld testdir2
d--------- 2 jschiwal jschiwal 144 2007-04-03 07:39 testdir2
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> chmod 766 testdir2
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> ls -l testdir2
total 0
-rw------- 1 jschiwal jschiwal 0 2007-04-03 07:40 testfile1
-rw------- 1 jschiwal jschiwal 0 2007-04-03 07:40 testfile2
-rw------- 1 jschiwal jschiwal 0 2007-04-03 07:40 testfile3