Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:26:07 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Cory Petkovsek <cory@adaptableit.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing directory permissions recursively Message-ID: <20040409092607.GC33753@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040409090351.GB3094@adaptableit.com> References: <000501c41df5$519419f0$0200a8c0@satellite> <20040409055515.GA50737@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <407646EB.7020708@geminix.org> <20040409090351.GB3094@adaptableit.com>
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote:
> > >cd $topdir
> > >find . -type d | xargs chmod 755
> >=20
> > In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this=
=20
> > directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be
> >=20
> > find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
>=20
> Please explain the "safer" difference in your eyes, Uwe. Are you thinkin=
g the
> admin might have ./ in their path?
But putting a space in a filename, or by several other means, you can
fake the first version of the command into working on directories
outside what was intended. However the more usual effect is that the
command fails to change the permissions on the whole tree as desired.=20
Cheers,
Matthew
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