changing file permissions

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Rob Wultsch wrote:

> What is the commmand to change ownership of a directory on the command
> line? the man page for chmod is not very helpful.

Use the chown(1) command.

> I am trying to make a guest user account that would rx access my music,
> but no access to my email and such...

Maybe add a music group to your /etc/group file with the members who are a
part of it. Then:

chgrp -R music /path/to/your/music/directory
chmod -R 750 /path/to/your/music/directory

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/