[ILUG] CHMOD

[Richard Ryan]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Andrew McGill wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 17:44:54 Conor Mac Aoidh wrote:
> > I just have a quick question about permissions. How to you grant all
> > read, write, everything permissions to a folder with chmod?
> If you want to allow read and write to the files in the folder, then this will 
> work, but it will also make the directories in the folder inaccessible:
> 	chmod 666 *
> 	# drw-rw-rw- permissions are not so great
> This will work, but it will make the files executable (not necessarily a great 
> idea):
> 	chmod 777 *
However, ' chmod 777 */ ' gives 777 perms to directories only...