Re: USB Drive weirdness
Tomislav Skunca <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:01, Robin Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > Another way would be to do a 'chown' instead of the 'chmod' and recursively change the owner of the files. _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug