Followup to this post...
Does anyone have a reference that tells what files need to be what? For
example, what permissions do CGI files need to be? How about the cgi-bin
directory? And the html or public_html directory?
Thanks,
Lilly
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As Robert said, the O'Reilly books are great.
> I have Linux in a Nutshell from O'Reilly and learned
> an easier way to change permissions than what I had been
> using. The idea is just to say what you want the
> permissions to be for user, group, and other. Here's
> some examples:
>
> /home/terry/temp>ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 terry users 4096 Jun 19 00:56 .
> drwx------ 10 terry users 4096 Jun 19 00:55 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terry users 9 Jun 19 00:56 file_one
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terry users 11 Jun 19 00:56 file_two
>
>
> /home/terry/temp>chmod u=rwx, g=rw, o=x file_one
> chmod: g=rw,: No such file or directory
> chmod: o=x: No such file or directory
>
> (Oops, I guess it doesn't like spaces- try
> again)
>
> /home/terry/temp>chmod u=rwx,g=rw,o=x file_one
>
> (Meaning that I,user, can read write xecute, group can read write, other
> can execute)
> /home/terry/temp>ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 terry users 4096 Jun 19 00:56 .
> drwx------ 10 terry users 4096 Jun 19 00:55 ..
> -rwxrw---x 1 terry users 9 Jun 19 00:56 file_one
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terry users 11 Jun 19 00:56 file_two
>
> (It worked!)
>
> /home/terry/temp>chmod u=rw *
>
> (user can read and write all files in directory)
> /home/terry/temp>ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 terry users 4096 Jun 19 01:14 .
> drwx------ 10 terry users 4096 Jun 19 00:55 ..
> -rw------x 1 terry users 9 Jun 19 00:56 file_one
> -rw------- 1 terry users 11 Jun 19 00:56 file_two
>
> /home/terry/temp>chmod g= *
> (group cannot do anything to any files - leaving a blank removes
> permissions)
>
> /home/terry/temp>ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 terry users 4096 Jun 19 01:14 .
> drwx------ 10 terry users 4096 Jun 19 00:55 ..
> -rw------x 1 terry users 9 Jun 19 00:56 file_one
> -rw------- 1 terry users 11 Jun 19 00:56 file_two
>
>
>
>
> Carolyn Jarie Getter wrote:
> >
> > Someone please tell me there exists an explanation of file and directory
>
> -snip-
> >
> > Carolyn
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