Query on changing the directory

Asked By ben howard 10 points N/A Posted on - 11/29/2011

UNIX hosting is different from Windows hosting. What I would like to know is how I can make permission in changing the directories instead of files. Would it be a huge security risk to put the entire directory system accessible for everyone?

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Answered By Paul Mac 0 points N/A #105764

Query on changing the directory

Permission in changing the directories:

• chmod has a -R flag to change the permissions on directories.
• Chmod +v dir can be used to set a directory to be listable.
• Chown -r username dir is used to change user of a directory.
• find dir -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ';' is used to change permissions bits of all files in a directory.
• find dir -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ';' is used to change permissions bits of all directories.  

Yes it  Would it be a huge security risk to put the entire directory system accessible for everyone.

 

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