On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:13:58 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> To make space, I want to move a couple of old backup >> files, preferably as user btth rather than as root. >> >> I want to move them from /home/btth to /opt -- and I'd >> rather use the FC6 GUI method (in conjunction with the new Disk >> Usage Analyzer in the FC6 Gnome GUI). [...] > You might want to look at Midnight Commander (mc). It is a curses > based CLI tool, so you will have to run it in a terminal window. The > nice thing about it is that you can highlight a file, directory, or > a group of them, and change permissions using check boxes for the > permissions you want. (Ctrl-X c or F9 --> File --> cHmod ) Wow! I installed it -- thanks to all who advised me! -- and I can see that this is a powerful tool indeed, and what's more a very interesting one. Many thanks! > I know there are GUI tools that will do the same thing. But MC is > nice because you can use it from the CLI as well. It will also work > with a mouse. I opened it from a tab su'd to root, and it let me change /opt to give write permission to "others." After that, what I had tried before worked beautifully. Thanks again! One question: suppose I had needed (as I prefer in general) to give permission only to one user, instead of "others," which sounds like it means *all* others. Is there a way to do that from mc?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora Core 6; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.119; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.02, Firefox 1.5 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
