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From: Jeff Woods <Kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>
To: eatley@wowcorp.com
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:12:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20041209140942.02faeb18@no.incoming.mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ac01c4de33$b3b63e20$1f0aa8c0@lanadmin>

At 12/9/2004 04:11 PM -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
>Second question...
>How can I recursively set all files/directories to 777?
>Chmod -R 777 *.* ... Didn't seem to hit everything.

"Linux is not Windows."  Lots of filenames on Linux (and other Unix-ish 
systems) don't have a period in them.

If you *really* mean "everything" then:
         chmod -R 777 /


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Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13 17:29 Remote X Little, Chris
2004-04-14 12:01 ` Juan Facundo Suárez
2004-10-13 18:43 ` Setting permissions via SSH upload to 777 Eve Atley
2004-10-13 19:23   ` Ray Olszewski
2004-12-09 21:11 ` 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files " Eve Atley
2004-12-09 21:12   ` Jeff Woods [this message]
2004-12-09 21:57   ` Ray Olszewski
2004-12-09 22:35     ` Simon Valiquette
2004-12-10 10:37   ` Jim Nelson
2004-12-10 13:53     ` J.
2004-12-10 21:05       ` Jim Nelson
2004-12-10 13:48   ` J.
2004-12-13 21:54   ` Stephen Samuel

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