Folder Permissions

[byw]

Hi

What is the best way to change a home directories permissions and all of the files and folders in it? You can use gnome to manually change all of the permsissions though with many files this is not appealing. Could i write a script to do this?

Thanks

[critter]

chmod with the -R option for recursive. But why would you want to change that for your home directory?

[Ug]

If you were trying to change the permissions recursively to allow for everyone to read and write the files contained within the filestructure you would want to open a command line and:

chmod -R o=rw

This would make it so as "others" (i.e. not the original user or group it belongs to) could read and write to the file. This isn't a very satisfactory method however, and if you could explain why you want to do this then we could probably suggest a more secure method of allowing the files to be shared. Such as by the use of groups.

[byw]

I have just updated FC3 to FC4 though did not use the standard upgrade option, and told Fedora just to leave the drives as they were, now I need to reset the permissions to allow my samba users to get to their directories