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How to make a path world-readable?
To make some item X world-readable, it is not enough for it to have the right permissions: each component of the absolute path leading to it must also have the right permissions. (My understanding, ...
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what is the difference between “chmod 775” and “chmod 2755”?
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What is the difference between "chmod 775" and "chmod 2755" ?
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External drive chmod does nothing
Why is it that I can do chmod on my files when they are on my laptops hard drive, but when i make files on my external drive, i can't change their access rights.
I do:
chmod 755 somefile,
and on my ...
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recursively change file permission but not directories?
I was doing a mass recursive change of permissions of some files that I had migrated to a unix system. I changed them to ug+rw, but then I found that I could not traverse subdirectories. I looked at ...
