Re: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

400 permissions.  The first number is for owner of file.  4 = read only. the
second number is group owner of the file. 0 = no access.  third number is
non-owner/non-group access ... 0 = no access.

-R is recursive.  It runs through all subdirectories too.

Yup, would lock everyone out.  And most likely prevent a lot of the computer
to run too :p
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...


> > From: Adam Lang
> >
> > Actually, on a segue, I did chown -r aalang.admins * and forgot I
> > was still
> > in / and didn't CD to the directory i wanted.
>
> I can't remember the EXACT command, but somebody did something along the
> lines of "chmod -R 400 .." one time and basically locked everybody out of
> the machine, because they only had read-only access, even to their own
home
> directories.  Something like that; it's been a LONG time.
>
> P.S. This is not a Unix slam - they were on as root, and had no business
> doing this kind of stuff.