On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Andrew McGill wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 17:44:54 Conor Mac Aoidh wrote:
> > I just have a quick question about permissions. How to you grant all
> > read, write, everything permissions to a folder with chmod?
> If you want to allow read and write to the files in the folder, then this will
> work, but it will also make the directories in the folder inaccessible:
> chmod 666 *
> # drw-rw-rw- permissions are not so great
> This will work, but it will make the files executable (not necessarily a great
> idea):
> chmod 777 *
However, ' chmod 777 */ ' gives 777 perms to directories only...
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