[ILUG] file permissions?

[Philip Creevy]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 22:38 +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2006, at 22:22, Philip Creevy wrote:
> 
> > I have just setup a windows user with FC5
> > and have run into what seems like a strange
> > problem.
> > I copied all of his documents from windows
> > to a CD, I then copied the contents of the CD
> > to folder on his Linux desktop, I then changed
> > all permissions of the copied files with
> > "chmod -R u+w *".
> > When he tries to open any of the .doc files
> > nothing happens so I logged in as root with SSH.
> > I looked at the permissions and they are all
> > "-rw-r--r--" and owner and group is him.
> > I then logged in as him but when I tried to change
> > directory to where the files are I got permission
> > denied.
> > The folder on his desktop is called "backup15062006"
> > that I created as him on his desktop but it is the
> > folders under this folder I cannot access through
> > SSH.
> > He can drag the files to his desktop and then open
> > then.
> 
> It's some kind of permissions problem. Lacking further details as to  
> what exactly
> the permissions are, you should be able to fix this by doing the  
> following as root,
> assuming the user is called fred, his primary group is fred (default  
> with FC5 I think)
> and his desktop folder is called Desktop in his  home directory  
> (adjust appropriately
> if not) :
> 
> cd ~fred/Desktop
> chown -R fred:fred backup15062006
> chmod -R 600 backup15062006
> find backup15062006 -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
> 
> 
> The last command I think may be at the heart of the matter - it adds  
> execute permission
> to backup15062006 and all the directories under it, and without  
> execute permission, you
> cannot search a directory.
> 
> 
> Niall
> 
> 
Thanks, that worked, it was the last line that did it.
Philip