[ILUG] File ownerships with chown? FC3

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, John Madden wrote:

> chown -R root:group /var/pets/ && chmod 775 /var/pets/

who uses octal modes these days?

> You'll need to chmod the files in the directory separately if you 
> don't want them executable. If there are no other directories in 
> /var/pets, chmod 664 /var/pets/* will do it.

chmod -R ug+rw,o+r /var/pets
find /var/pets -type d -exec chmod ug+rwx {} \;

regards,
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