Re: [PLUG] Program permission

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:23:00AM -0500, Naresh G. Reddy wrote:
> chown <user> <program>
>  ex. # chown naresh pine

Sure...

> chgrp <group name> <program>
>  ex. # chgrp naresh pine

... irrelevant in light of...

> chown 700 program
>  ex. # chown 700 pine

... but you mean chmod(1), not chown(8), here. (chown 700 will change
ownership to the uid 700, which *might* be naresh, but probably
isn't.)

Changing the group owner doesn't matter if you don't give the group
any permissions (the first 0 in 700).

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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