Permission issues

MediaMogul · 03-20-2022, 06:56 AM

Seems to be. Like I said above once I created the New Folder and copied the .desktop files to it it allowed for the handful of icons to be changed where the other 3 folders wouldn't.

ondoho · 03-20-2022, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by MediaMogul

Seems to be. Like I said above once I created the New Folder and copied the .desktop files to it it allowed for the handful of icons to be changes where the other 3 folders wouldn't.

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boughtonp · 03-21-2022, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

chmod can distinguish between files and directories all by itself

I thought that was the case but when my searches came back with variations on the two-line find method, I assumed I'd remembered wrong.

Re-checking the chmod man page and coreutils manual for chmod and file permissions it's not clearly stated, but I guess what you're referring to is the conditional uppercase X, which is +x for directories, but preserves the existing +/- x on files.

So going from 777 to 755/644 (except where execute is already set) could be a single chmod with something like "a+rX,go-w" ?

ondoho · 03-22-2022, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by boughtonp

I guess what you're referring to is the conditional uppercase X, which is +x for directories, but preserves the existing +/- x on files.

Yes, exactly!

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So going from 777 to 755/644 (except where execute is already set) could be a single chmod with something like "a+rX,go-w" ?

Yes, that looks familiar.
I was able to find that syntax through web searches, let's see...
Check these answers:
https://superuser.com/a/91966
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/39763

hazel · 03-22-2022, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by boughtonp

II guess what you're referring to is the conditional uppercase X, which is +x for directories, but preserves the existing +/- x on files.

So going from 777 to 755/644 (except where execute is already set) could be a single chmod with something like "a+rX,go-w" ?

I never knew that! It just shows you can always learn something new.