Cannot change Directory permissions after becoming root

Gary Baker · 10-01-2013, 09:01 AM

Could this be Linux Malware?

I use su to get to root then issued
the command "chmod +w /home/mydirectory

I had no effect on anything.

drwxr-xr-x 28 gb users 4096 Sep 30 14:13 /home/mydirectory

I want to set the permissions to 755 but no matter
how hard I try it remains the same.

colucix · 10-01-2013, 09:06 AM

Permissions are already 755, maybe you mean 777? In that case the correct syntax would be either

Code:

chmod 777 /some/dir

or

Code:

chmod go+w /some/dir

Gary Baker · 10-02-2013, 10:52 AM

That was what I wanted. Thank you!