Permissions

ianq · 01-14-2007, 01:54 AM

Hi All

I have accidentally make a mistake by do this : chomd -r .* when i am in /home/reports. Now /home/reports become : d-wx-wx-wx /home/reports.

Could someone please tell me how can i revert back to or able to chmod to 777 -R /home/reports.

Thanks

Simon Bridge · 01-14-2007, 02:08 AM

What happens when you chmod +r /home/reports

(I've just checked this out on a file in my system...)

Code:

$ ls -l dir.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 simon simon 119 2007-01-13 23:08 dir.txt
$ chmod -r dir.txt
$ ls -l dir.txt
--w------- 1 simon simon 119 2007-01-13 23:08 dir.txt
$ cat dir.txt
cat: dir.txt: Permission denied
$ chmod +r dir.txt
$ ls -l dir.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 simon simon 119 2007-01-13 23:08 dir.txt

ianq · 01-14-2007, 10:07 AM

Simon, thank you

i have tried to chmod +r when i am still in /home/reports but failed. i will try to chmod +r /home/reports in either /home or /root. Btw, i am having this problem as well.

You see, when i am in /home and mkdir, i get this permission denied although the owner of /home "." and ".." is root. Why ? anyway to force change the permission of a directory wtth root user ?.

Please advise.

Simon Bridge · 01-15-2007, 04:29 AM

Please edit your profile to display the distribution you are using.

When you report the results of commands, please paste the command and the result to the forum.

eg.

Code:

$ mkdir dummy
simon@errata:~$ ls -dl dummy
drwxr-xr-x 2 simon simon 4096 2007-01-15 23:28 dummy

Thank you.

ianq · 02-06-2007, 12:11 AM

Dear All

Sorry to bother you all, but the problem is resolved. I did not realised that the /home i am referring is actually a mount point.
Did a df -h /home and found the NFS server. So i went to the NFS server, and i am able to change permissions as usual.

Sorry to take up your time, and please close this post, thank you all

Rgds
Ian