Re: A file's permission controler
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote:
>
> Do someone know if there is a programme that is able to controle :
> - the permision right of all or part file installed in a debian
> machin including the directory's right.
> - the presence of the more importante or used file, directorys
> (/dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, ....)
> - and create them if root says to do it
>
> if not, I am interesting to create one, with your help of course.
Khalid
Could you be asking about chmod? That file utility sets
permissions for the file owner, file group, and others, and
devices as well. An extract from the man page is:
CHMOD(1) CHMOD(1)
NAME
chmod - change the access permissions of files
SYNOPSIS
chmod [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--silent]
[--quiet] [--verbose] [--help] [--version] mode file...
DESCRIPTION
The format of a symbolic mode is `[ugoa...][[+-=][rwxXs-
tugo...]...][,...]'. Multiple symbolic operations can be
given, separated by commas.
A combination of the letters `ugoa' controls which users'
access to the file will be changed: the user who owns it
(u), other users in the file's group (g), other users not
in the file's group (o), or all users (a). If none of
these are given, the effect is as if `a' were given, but
bits that are set in the umask are not affected.
The operator `+' causes the permissions selected to be
added to the existing permissions of each file; `-' causes
them to be removed; and `=' causes them to be the only
permissions that the file has.
--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
(Hope this qualifies.)
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