Top "Chmod" questions

Why does recursive mode on chmod do everything but recursion?

chmod -R 775 *.cgi only changes permissions on the files in the current directory, the files in the subdirectory don't get …

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How can i change permissions of a USB Stick(pendrive) in Ubuntu?

I am working on a security tool for Ubuntu in which I want to remove all permissions for a pendrive …

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Access GPIO (/sys/class/gpio) as non-root

The /sys/class/gpio can only be access as root by default. So I like that a new group gpio …

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How do i secure a web server's image upload directory?

For my web application, people can upload images from a web form to my web server. What should I set …

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Mac OSX file permissions has '@' - how to remove that '@'

How can I remove that '@' character from the file permissions? '@' in file permissions for Mac/OSX …

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Why do my setuid root bash shell scripts not work?

I created this simple script to allow the user to remove files created by the web server in his home …

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How can I CHMOD files/directories on Windows Azure?

I am using FileZilla FTP to right click and change a directories File Permissions as I do on many other …

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rsync deploy and file/directories permissions

I'm trying to use rsync to deploy my website that resides on a shared web host. Phpsuexec is running on …

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NSFileManager & NSFilePosixPermissions

I want to use the octal permissions (used for chmod) for NSFilePosixPermissions. Here is what I did now: NSFileManager *manager = […

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Find all .php files inside directories with 777 permissions

I have recently had a linux server compromised from bots uploading .php scripts and posing as images. I'm currently in …

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