Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:15:36AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> DIR_TO_FIX=/home/groupX
> GROUP=mygroup
> PERM=g+rwX
>
> find $DIR_TO_FIX -type f -o -type d | xargs chown $GROUP 
> # or chown -hR $GROUP $DIR_TO_FIX
> find $DIR_TO_FIX -type f -o -type d | xargs chmod $PERM
> # or chmod -hR $PERM $DIR_TO_FIX

This is a security nightmare. I would *not* recommend doing any such
thing in a user filesystem.

Mike Stone