From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Woods 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 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20041209140942.02faeb18@no.incoming.mail> References: <9BBB7C9EFEF1874BAC4DC204E867EFAF02561319@s99mail06> <00ac01c4de33$b3b63e20$1f0aa8c0@lanadmin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <00ac01c4de33$b3b63e20$1f0aa8c0@lanadmin> References: <9BBB7C9EFEF1874BAC4DC204E867EFAF02561319@s99mail06> <00ac01c4de33$b3b63e20$1f0aa8c0@lanadmin> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: eatley@wowcorp.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 / -- Jeff Woods - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs