How create a directory with full permiss for everybody

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Aug 11 12:58:05 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 22:50 +1000, Ben Stringer wrote:
> If you want every account to have access to the directory, there is
> already a category of permissions for that - no need to put everyone in
> a group. Just make sure the directory has permissions drwxrwxrwx, which
> can be done using "chmod 777 directory".

I wouldn't do that, it gives unfettered access to *everything*.  At
least doing what the original poster discussed, making it for a select
group of users, mitigates some of the security issues.

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