change permitions in user home

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Mon Aug 11 17:30:08 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:37 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote:
> I need to change permissions on some of my user files.   I have the 
> command but i need to know how to apply it to an individual file.  Do I 
> click on the file and then put in the command.   That dosn't seem to 
> work.  Been reading all morning can find ways to change all the files 
> but not to single out an individual file.  I have files that everybody 
> can write to ,read and exicute and I want to change just those files so 
> that I as the owner of them can write to them.
>             Thanks Doug

In Nautllis you can right click on the file and change the permissions
when you bring up the permission tab.

On the command line you can use chmod to change permissions.  Sounds
like you want to do something like:

chmod u-x,g-wx,o-wx filename

Or with the octal codes:

chmod 644 filename

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