Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:32, Rob Kampen<rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: > >> BTW >> chmod +w file.doc >> only changes permissions for owner and group - world is left untouched, not >> what I remembered, I guess some man reading coming my way. >> > > >From "man chmod": > > "If none of these are given, the effect is as if ‘a’ were given, but > bits that are set in the umask are not affected." > > That means it will set all if your umask is "0". As your umask will > probably be either "022" or "002", it will set write permissions to > only user or only user+group respectively. > > HTH, > Filipe > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Got it - that makes sense - Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090713/729e0a92/attachment-0005.vcf>