Reading the chmod man page also helps. Greg On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:53:06AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, Teddy. Not onlyare the files in test directory viewable, ubut you have > just given everyone on the planet full access to do what they will with > them. Don't ever use 777 unless you know what you are doing. > Now if you want the files to be totally unevalible to others except one user > set it to 700, and only one user has access to them. > Now if you want your users to be able to see the files but not delete them, > modify them, etc 744 is the way to go. This will set it to read write > exicute for the user such as root, but everyone else has read only access. > If you need me to explain how parmissions are defined ask, and I'll tell > you. It is really important to know how parmissions are defined to keep > security up on your system. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
