Hey.

I thought I'd be doing something clever, turns out I might not have after all. I chose to install and configurate quite a few apps as root in /home/apps/, thinking that all users would have access to these apps with the settings I made. This is not so. Users do have access to the apps but settings are default. Is there an easy way to change the permissions for /home that will affect all files and subfolders in /home ? I'm hoping that this way users will be able to run the apps with the settings I made as root, because I really do not want to go through the bore of configurating all the apps again for every single user.

Regards.

man chown
man chmod

they both have the -R option - means do someting recursively.

Thanks. What permissions should be set ? 777 ?

i think no. 777 includes write permission. read and execute should do. go with 555.

You should not grant write permission to executables owned by root. One user can do nasty things on the file that can be executed by other users ``including root''.

So doing this:

chown -R 555 /home

or

chmod -R 555 /home

should do the trick ?

you mean chmod -R 555 /home/apps? that will work.
chown changes the owning user and/or group of the files. so, you might want to do: chown -R root:root /home/apps. that would make /home/apps and its files and dirs belong to the user root and the group root. that, and the chmod command, will prevent other users from modifying /home/apps.

I'll try again. From my first post in this thread:

I'm hoping that this way users will be able to run the apps with the settings I made as root, because I really do not want to go through the bore of configurating all the apps again for every single user.

How can I solve this?