Changing permission for folders only

Palula · 08-24-2006, 04:29 PM

Hi everybody!

I want to change permissions for files and folders, seperately. The problem is that I´d like to give permissions to FILES as rw------- (600) and I´d like to give permissions to FOLDERS as rwx------ (700). How can I do that?

Can I separate folders from files with chmod

For example:

chmod -R 700 * (just for folders)
chmod -R 600 * (just for files)

-R stands for recursively changing modes within subtrees...

Thank you!

ramram29 · 08-24-2006, 04:50 PM

I do the following.

chmod -R 0700 *
chmod 0600 $(find . ! -type d)

This basically changes all files to 0700 permissions recuresively (in Linux directories are pointers to groups of files); then I run another 0600 permission command of files found recursively except folders. Make sure you do it as root and make sure you are changed to the proper directory.

WARNING: Don't do this from the root directory! Run 'pwd' and make sure you are in a directory other than root '/'.

vivo2341 · 09-02-2006, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ramram29

I do the following.

chmod -R 0700 *
chmod 0600 $(find . ! -type d)

This basically changes all files to 0700 permissions recuresively (in Linux directories are pointers to groups of files); then I run another 0600 permission command of files found recursively except folders. Make sure you do it as root and make sure you are changed to the proper directory.

WARNING: Don't do this from the root directory! Run 'pwd' and make sure you are in a directory other than root '/'.

Could you please help me? I installed a script which installed about 50 directorys on my hosts server in the public_html folder. What I would like to do is change the permissions on the folders only to 755 but no file permission changes at all.

Thanks in advance,

viv

btmiller · 09-02-2006, 11:48 PM

find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

run in your public_html directory should do that.

vivo2341 · 09-03-2006, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by btmiller

find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

run in your public_html directory should do that.

Thank you very much for your help.

I that the script needs to chmod 755 all of the '3cache' subfolders. So I have my main public_html with about 50 subfolders, inside these folders there is a folder called '3cache' I need to change to 755.

I tried the command "find 3cache -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;" but it does not seem to do it correctly.

Thanks again

ramram29 · 09-05-2006, 09:09 AM

Try this one:

chmod 0755 $(find . -type d)

sysconfig · 09-05-2006, 09:54 AM

I think find command with exec parameter would be batter to use

ezak · 09-01-2008, 08:24 AM

using vivo2341 way
for folder only to be 700 + sub dir
find . -type d -exec chmod 0700 {} \;

for file only to be 600 + sub dir
find . -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} \;

oshanter · 02-19-2010, 04:22 PM

I find it easier to use the special execute mode X (capital x).

chmod -R u=rwX,go= directory/

From Wikipedia:

Quote:

X (special execute) is not a permission in itself but rather can be used instead of x. It applies execute permissions to directories regardless of their current permissions and applies execute permissions to a file which already has at least 1 execute permission bit already set (either user, group or other).

So if you previously applied execute to all files, you'll first need to remove all rights:

sudo chmod -R 000 directory/
sudo chmod -R u=rwX,go= directory/

It's crucial to use sudo/root login, otherwise recursion will fail.