Re: help with getting permissions set correctly for .bin and .etc on a Debian box

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Scott Berry wrote:

> Name here is Scott.  I just installed Smartlist a few days ago.  I am
> having trouble accessing the .bin and also the .etc directories for
> Smartlist.  I am wondering if any one can tell me what to chown them to
> and chgrp and chmod them too.  Thanks for the help.

You can chmod 2755 /var/list if you want to access such directory as an
ordinary user, but the upstream package has this directory as rwx--s--x
and the Debian package respect that. You are only supposed to manipulate
SmartList files there as the "list" user, really, so become root and then
"su list". An umask of 002 so that files are automatically writable by
group list would be recommended too.