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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:14:24 -0600
From:      Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@computerstopusa.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file permissions
Message-ID:  <32EBD740.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970126134117.5774A-100000@luke.cpl.net>

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Shawn Ramsey wrote:
> 
> This may be a dumb question.. but can someone please tell me how I make a
> directory that can only be read and written to by root?
> 
> thanks.


Shawn,

The man pages on chown, chgrp, and chmod should give you everything you
need.

Breifly you need to change the owner of the directory to root ( chown )
and do a chmod 600 on the directory.  

Read the man pages !!  :)

Randy



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