change permitions in user home

[Ashley Benton]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Doug Pollard wrote:
>
> >> You can do it in the terminal, the command would look like this:
> >> sudo chmod 755 /path/of/your/file.extension
> >>
> >> Assuming 755 is what you want
> >>
> >  Does the arbitrary number 755 that you used represent a file number?
> > How do I find this number.        Thanks Doug
>
> Tell me, did it ever occur to you to pick up a book on linux and read it?
> The questions you are asking are *extremely* basic.
>

I don't know if he has a book but if he looked on internet and had no idea
what he was looking for I think asking a question that at least put you in
the good direction helps. I am sure I posed also very basic question when I
begun.
Why not type man chmod in the terminal, it will explain a lot about the
command.

Meg

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