Setting permissions on wwwroot (is there a fast way?)

reesee · 04-17-2004, 01:53 PM

Hello

I am wondering if there is a fast way to apply 755 to all folders and 644 to all files in my wwwroot directory? I've been doing it the long way, which is chmod -R 644 wwwroot, then changing all of the folders one by one to 755, it takes awhile.

Thanks for the help.

trickykid · 04-17-2004, 02:49 PM

chmod 644 wwwroot/

chmod -R 755 wwwroot/*

reesee · 04-17-2004, 03:11 PM

Hi trickykid

When I do those command I am unable to enter wwwroot, am I doing something wrong? From a shell I am doing chmod 644 wwwroot/ then chmod -R 755 wwwroot/*

thanks for the help

trickykid · 04-17-2004, 03:14 PM

Who is the owner of wwwroot/ ?

You could do it backwards maybe like this:

chmod -R 755 wwwroot/

And then:

chmod 644 wwwroot/

reesee · 04-17-2004, 03:35 PM

root is the owner of wwwroot. I thied what you said and still got access denied. I then changed the owner and group to my name and got the same thing.

trickykid · 04-17-2004, 03:38 PM

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Originally posted by reesee
root is the owner of wwwroot. I thied what you said and still got access denied. I then changed the owner and group to my name and got the same thing.

Well, you have to be logged in as root to change the permissions if your not already logged in as root..

reesee · 04-17-2004, 03:48 PM

I might be a noob but I knew that much.

What I did was (and you can tell me if I'm wrong).

chmod -R 644 wwwroot

find . -type d | xargs chmod 755

now every files is 644 and every folder is 755.