[NTLUG:Discuss] NFS Resolution

[Patrick Parks]

On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 21:46, Michael Patrick wrote:
Thanks, that helps a little in my understanding. So if this was the
case, if any user copies a file, or creates a directory under this
testdir, will it retain the permissions of the testdir, or would it be
set by the owner?

> Hi Patrick.
> 
> Unix permissions work like this:
> 
> 1 - execute (or traverse if a directory)
> 2 - write
> 4 - read
> 
> further.. the groupings are 
> 
> owner group others
> 
> so 755 = rwxr-xr-x
> 
> Read/Write/Execute for owner
> Read and Execute for owner's groups and Others
> 
> so for someone random (i.e. everyone) to get into a directory, it would need at least
> 
> d--------x
> 
> now... they won't be able to list files.. that needs  r-x
> 
> The utility to change permissions is chmod
> 
> 
> chmod -R 755 michael.users testdir
> 
> means that I want to assign rwxr-xr-x to testdir AND everything below it  (-R is recurse)
> 
> Michael
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