Showing posts with label security permission subfiles subdirectories linux unix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security permission subfiles subdirectories linux unix. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

How to set different permissions for subfiles and subdirectories

To give different permission settings for all subdirectories and subfiles use following commands:

find /start/location/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
find /start/location/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

If you receive such an error "permission denied", run above commands as root with "su" parameter or try them as following:

sudo find /start/location/ -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chmod 644
sudo find /start/location/ -type d -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chmod 755

In here permission settings of all subfiles will be changed to "644" and all subdirectories will be changed to "755".