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Old 07-14-2005, 10:11 AM   #1
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Question FTP: recursive chmod (separate for directories and files)


Hello,

does anyone know a tool or an application with which I can do the following via FTP:
chmod -R 755 <all dirs>
chmod -R 644 <all files>

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Old 07-14-2005, 03:26 PM   #2
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most ftp clients will chmod recursivley by default, so it could be trickey to make the file one thing and the directories somthing else.


why do you need to do this?


If you want to allow uploading, but not allow changing of files, it would be easier and safer to have a seperate upload directory
 
Old 07-14-2005, 04:20 PM   #3
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Recently, I had to change the names of around 500 files on a few dozen devices with an ftp network interface.

I cut and pasted the directory listing to a file, and then used sed to extract the file names I needed to work with. This created a script of ftp commands. Using linux you can run a script by redirecting a file.

ftp ftp://name:password@ipaddress <ftpscript

In my case, I needed to perform this on a number of machines so the last command was 'bye'. Then the line above could be placed in a for loop, where I used a variable for the last IP number.
 
Old 09-10-2005, 09:41 AM   #4
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Originally posted by Kahless
most ftp clients will chmod recursivley by default, so it could be trickey to make the file one thing and the directories somthing else.


why do you need to do this?


If you want to allow uploading, but not allow changing of files, it would be easier and safer to have a seperate upload directory
You need this if you want to setup a CMS or Wiki or discussion board or any other piece of software which is configured through a webinterface. For this to work, you usually have to make the config directory and all files in it world writable and you don't want to chmod 150 files in 20 different (sub-)folders by hand, trust me.

I'm using gFTP and it doesn't chmod recursively and it's a major pain in the back. So is there any Linux FTP client which can chmod recursively? It's not true that most of the ftp clients do it automatically, I don't know one which actually does, because 90% of the Linux ftp clients are frontends to 'ftp' and 'ftp' doesn't chmod recursively, at least not by default.
 
Old 09-10-2005, 09:54 AM   #5
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yes, for a cms setup, but not only for config directory, but for images, etc, etc, too.

my solution was:

copy offline folder to /tmp/something
chmod it locally as you want
transfer with gftp and swith on the option "keep permissions" somewhere.

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Old 09-10-2005, 11:04 AM   #6
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Yep, that's the best one can do right now. Still I think it would be more than just a nice feature to have a recursive chmod command in e.g. gFTP (which I'm using exclusively). I wonder why this isn't a standard feature of ftp clients, it can't be that hard to implement since the chmod command itself already has this option!
 
Old 09-10-2005, 11:41 AM   #7
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the unix chmod command has this, but not the one in the ftp server called by SITE CHMOD.
But as clients have features for recursive copying etc., it wouldn't be a problem to implement recursive chmod, ls, etc.

mgmax
 
Old 06-19-2006, 01:45 PM   #8
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Just use lftp
it supports recursive chmod
 
Old 10-01-2007, 03:38 PM   #9
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Lightbulb Konqueror - THE best ftp program

I found a really good solution - Konqueror (yes, the KDE file browser)

You can use it for ftp - simply enter ftp://username@server.xyz into the address bar and type enter

You can chmod recursively by right-clicking on an item (or multiple items) and choosing "Settings" - Now a settings dialogue appears. Click on "Rights" - now you can select all options you like - don't forget about the checkbox "apply to all subfolders and their contents".

After clicking on OK, a status dialogue appears that only says "logon successful" - simply wait for some time until it disappears and the rights have been changed.

(Sorry, I don't know the exact english texts - if someone could look them up for me, it would be nice.)

If someone has other experiences, please write back.

mgmax
 
Old 10-01-2007, 03:46 PM   #10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mgmax View Post
I found a really good solution - Konqueror (yes, the KDE file browser)
...
How weird to get an answer to a question posted 2 years ago. But, thanks, anyway :-D

I use Nautilus now. It can serve any folder from any source transparently via a VFS. I'm pretty sure it can also chmod recursively.
 
Old 12-01-2008, 12:11 AM   #11
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Cool Konqueror to recursively change permissions

I just used Konqueror to change file permissions recursively [to any depth] on my laptop and it works very well...
the regular Linux file browser only does it to the immediate folder contents... CHMOD with -R only applies changes to the immediate folder contents...
I was looking for a tool that would apply the changes to all subordinate files and folders... and Konqueror did it very quickly & easily...
Thank you for the hint, J.
 
Old 01-29-2011, 08:06 AM   #12
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FileZilla can also recursively chmod your remote files/directories. You can even decide if you want both chmoded or files only or directories only.
 
  


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