[CUBE] Permissions and OSX

[kevin at 216websolutions.com]

My mistake- -perm -600 should have been just -perm 600.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 2/4/04, 5:45:44 PM, <kevin at 216websolutions.com> wrote regarding Re: 
[CUBE] Permissions and OSX:


> sudo chmod should do it. For the nobody files, sudo chown. If those don't
> work, enable the root account, and su to root and do it then. There are a
> variety of ways to make this even easier. If the files are being
> transferred via ftp, look into changing the user's umask setting, though
> that may have unintended consequences in other settings. Also, the
> command "find . -type -f -perm -600 |xargs chmod 644 can be used to
> change all files with permissions of 600, for example, to 644.

> You can learn a lot with the man command. Start with man man, then go to
> man chown, man chmod, and man find.

> On 2/4/04, 5:13:19 PM, Rod Clifford <rod at eslickdesign.com> wrote regarding
> [CUBE] Permissions and OSX:


> > This is aimed for the unix (read: smart) members of the list:
> > Is there a way in terminal to globally change permissions to folders
> > containing files copied from another machine?

> > We frequently swap files between machines, permissions for the files
> > have been set by machine A (original owner)
> > and cannot be changed by machine B (new owner who copied the files onto
> > his machine) "you do not have permission to modify
> > this file".
> > Changing permissions on the folder for the files is pretty hit and
> > miss. Individual files are usually owned by "nobody" with
> > guests having read only access.

> > help

> > Rod


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