Re: USB Drive weirdness

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 12:30 +1300, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
> On 12 October 2011 11:24, Jaco <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> 
> Valid point. If it's a new filesystem you can drop the -R because there
> won't be anything to change permissions on other than the root directory. If
> it's an existing filesystem it would probably be safer to chown all the
> files, or use find to set a+rw on the files, and only set a+rwx on the
> directories ..

Have a look a the chown docs... specifically the X flag.

Cheers,

Steve
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