Re: [TCLUG:13752] permissions

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Rodney Ray wrote:

> 1st... Done .... I'm at work so who know what the settings are from week to
> week. (ooops) I just got your other  mail , but I already set it to text
> mode.
> 
> 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
> 

chown user.group images
chmod 775 images

..will set the owner to user, the group to group, and allow user+group to
write, and everyone to read.

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