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Old September 7th, 2005, 07:35 AM
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Setting access privileges in Linux

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How do I give users access to folders, in otherwords change their privileges?

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It isn't very clear what you want to do but you might start by looking at the man page for "chmod". At the command line, do a:

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man chmod


to see how to change directory permissions. At a guess you'll want to change directories to 755 and files to 644.

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