Inherited Rights

bl0wfish apoc@lunarsurf.com
Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:25:27 -0400 (EDT)


	Oh, didn't know that.
	I personally use the recursive switch, myself.

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Daniel R . Kilbourne wrote:

> 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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