Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:47:07 +0200 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing directory permissions recursively Message-ID: <407646EB.7020708@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040409055515.GA50737@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <000501c41df5$519419f0$0200a8c0@satellite> <20040409055515.GA50737@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, dave wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>> I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred
>
>>from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I
>
>>could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering
>>if there was a perl or shell script that would do this?
>
> cd $topdir
> find . -type d | xargs chmod 755
In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this
directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be
find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
Better safe than sorry.
Uwe
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