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I accidentally chmod -R +x on a directory. How do I restore the correct permissions?
Well, to be specific, it was chmod -R 755. Now every file is executable, which I don't want.
I am thinking that I should look at the first two bytes of each file for the #!, but will this cover ...
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How to apply recursively chmod directories without affecting files?
After I apply chmod -R to a directory, permissions are changed for everything within (files and directories). How can I add execute/search (x) permissions to directories without modifying the files?
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Wrongly set chmod / 777. Problems?
I was trying to run chmod -R 777 ./ but ended up typing chmod -R 777 / and set 777 on my entire machine. What can go wrong? How can I fix it?
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Recursive chmod only folders or only files via script or nautilus menu?
This has been discussed before here.
What I'd like to know is how to turn these:
Recursive chmod only files within this folder:
find . -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} \;
Recursive chmod only folders ...
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No effect of umask and chmod on mounted drives
The windows drives are mounted at boot-time using pysdm. The setting were
nls=iso8859-1,users,umask=002,sync,user,dirsync,uid=mtk
When I try to change the permission of files using chmod, I don't ...
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Unix users, groups, and permissions
I don't understand unix users, groups, permissions, etc. For example, things managed by the chmod, chgrp, usermod, groupadd, etc. commands. How do all these things work?
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chmod -R 644 ~/Documents
I recently noticed that all of the files in my ~/Documents were somehow incorrectly given executable status. This proved annoying as trying to opening any file gave me a message box saying it was ...
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Convert ls -l output format to chmod format
Say I have the following output from ls -l:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 17:21 foo
How can I automatically convert this to the format used by chmod?
For example:
$ echo drwxr-xr-x | ...
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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 ...
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User with read access to /home
Pardon my ignorance but I can't seem to come up with a solution to this one.
I'd like to create a user that has read access to every user's home catalog located in /home.
Do I need acl's for this or ...
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Find web server group? Permissions problem
I'm trying to make Wordpress work. I currently have this error message:
Could not create directory.
/var/www/html/wp-content/upgrade/theme_name
when trying to upload a theme. This is the ...
