Re: USB Drive weirdness

Robin Paulson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:24:01 +1300, Jaco wrote:
>>open a terminal and 'sudo chmod a+rwx -R /media/whatever' to make the 
>> root directory and anything you already put into it writable by 
>> everyone
>
> Seems ridiculously dangerous to me, but I'll bite.....
> I would've used some variant of `find /media/whatever -type f -exec
> chmod a+rw {} \;` or some variant of `chown $(whoami)`,  rather than
> enabling execution on arbitrary files.
> The aforementioned command would work, but seems a bit drastic: like
> using a sledge-hammer to drive in a thumb-tack.

 yeah, i'd agree with jaco, setting +x is unnecessary and potentially 
 dangerous

-- 
 robin

 http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University

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