Inherited Rights

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

One note on the latter (chmod 777 */*) method

This will ony change permissions one 'level' deep....if there are any directories */* - such as */dir/dir2, the files in dir2 would be unaffected...



bl0wfish extolled:
> 
> 	If your using chown/chmod
> 	I believe it's the -R flag
> 	that recursively changes permissions.
> 	For instance it would be :
> 
> 	chown -R root.root *
> 	or
> 	chmod -R 777 *
> 
> 	I believe this works as well :
> 	chown root.root */*
> 	or
> 	chmod 777 */*
> 
> 
> > -Hey
> >
> >      How do you give inherited rights from the root of a folder to all files
> > and subdirectories within that folder.  I'm a newbie, please go easy.
> >
> > *Josh*
> >
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
daniel.kilbourne@corecomm.com
CoreComm Systems Engineering
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