Re: [TCLUG:13752] permissions

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Rodney Ray wrote:
> 
> 2nd I looked at the manpage on chmod and even looked it up in a book , but I
> still get this error message saying" invalid mode" this is what I'm doing
> ls-l
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Feb 19 12:08 images
> chmod htmlgroup+w images
> chmod: invalid mode
> 
> I know the group exist but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...... Does
> chmod 765 file or directory allow to set it to a group??? If I'm on the
> right track is that not what the 6 is for in 765... if this is true what
> group is it?
> 
> Thanks

There may be a trick to this that I don't know, but I don't think chmod
can change the user/group of a file.  Break it down into two commands:

chgrp htmlgroup images
chmod g+w images

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