On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:22, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> On my computer, really the only user is me, sometimes being a regular
> user, and sometimes being a super user.
>
> Should I make a group that includes me in regular user mode, or somehow
> grant permissions to me as an individual.
Individual is easier unless you expect to need to extend access to
others.
> And... um... how do I do that?
chown -R username target
> Is it:
> chmod 775 -R /var/www/html/
If you need to change access permissions also, the symbolic
modes are easier to remember. For example:
chmod u+rw ... add read and write access for user (owner)
chmod o+r ... add read access for other (everyone)
chmod o-w ... remove write access for other.
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Les Mikesell
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