-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:10 am, Marek wrote: > Hi > > My home dir permissions have got a bit tangled up. > > /home/marek has the correct permissions. But all the dir under that are > user 501 (-rw-r--r--) and i can not write to them. > > I have tried setting the permissions with konqueror but it always gets > stuck with some file that cannot be changed. > > Is there a command line to do this all in one shot. Instead of doing > chmod 777 on each dir which only seems to work. 755 does not and chmod > 777 /home/marek does not either. 777 seems to be incorrect anyway. Either of these should work. find /home/marek -type d -exec chmod 775 "{}" \; or, to be prompted before each change: find /home/marek -type d -ok chmod 775 "{}" \; Hope that helps, - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0sURn/07WoAb/SsRApzHAKCCmLHYCxSrx3snnmAi6igA7lcVMACfTFxQ 9TuMsc9D5np2jb7sRAV89Ss= =FXt1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----