Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:00:27 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <012001c1a4f8$9fb5eff0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com> <02012419032304.01209@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020124134552.F16D93F56@i8k.babbleon.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:45 AM Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD > to chmod (which means to change permissions, by the way--not sure why it's > called "chmod") or anything else to get it to work for a regular user, and I It's called "chmod" because you are "changing the mode". Although the command will accept arguments like +r and -x, what you are actually doing is changing the numeric mode of a file. In each group, the "r" is worth 4, the "w" worth 2, and the "x" is worth 1. There are more such as the suid bit but these are the basics. So in this file, -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11158 Apr 20 1998 pdf_sec.ps the mode is 644. And in this file, -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3545 Jan 8 11:30 znew the mode is 555. HTH, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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