Re: USB Drive weirdness
Robin Paulson <[email protected]>
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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
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robin
http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University
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