Chmod
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chmod changes the permissions fo files and directories
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Common Usage
Set executable permission on b.pl for user, group and other.
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ chmod +x b.pl
Set the permissions of all files and directories in the current default directory to 600 (rw------, i.e. read and write for only the user).
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ chmod 600 *
Recursively set the user write bit on testdir and all the files and directories it contains.
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ chmod -R u+w testdir/
Recursively set the user read bit on testdir and all the files and directories it contains.
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ chmod -R u+r testdir/
Open Questions
If you have an upload directory, is there a way to make the files belong to you (the owner of the directory) instead of the user that uploaded it (usually apache)? Set permissions for an upload directory
[georgeg@rop ~]$ chmod g+s uploads/
Tips
see also
man chmod
