Chmod???

[I am the one]

I keep coming across the term CHMOD, can someone explain exactly what it means, and how to do it.

Thanks, Neo.

[npoole]

Hello. chmod means "change mode". It sets a permission in UNIX which tells the server what the file is allowed to do. For example, perhaps you have a CGI program which needs to write information to file.txt. file.txt has no permissions to begin with, so the program will not be allowed to open it, and then write to it. If you set 'chmod 666 file.txt', it now has the permission to be written to. You also need to set permissions on cgi programs to tell them they are allowed to be run by people viewing them on the web.

[Aidan Bahta]

It depends on what kind of access you have (to chmot a file). Are you using FTP or Telnet?

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[I am the one]

I am using FTP (WS_FTP), I have found the CHMOD button, however, when I click the button I am prompted with a screen which reads:

owner
Read - ticked
Write - ticked
Execute - not ticked

group
Read - ticked
Write
Execute

other
Read - ticked
Write
Execute

I have to be able to CHMOD one directory to 777, whilst some files are at 775 and others at 666. I was wondering, how could I do this, I assume it has something to do with ticking/unticking the appropriate boxes.

Thanks, Neo.

[TWTCommish]

Neo (cool alias, by the way):

Each of those 3 boxes has a value...the top box equals "4", the middle box is "2", and the bottom is "1"...so therefore, if you check all three boxes in the "owner" set, then you have a value of "7"...check all 3 in the other two sets, and you have two more 7s...total: "777".

755 would be all three checked in the first, and the top and bottom boxes checked in the 2nd and 3rd sets.

Let me know if this is confusing.



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[I am the one]

Aaahh, I see now...thanks for clearing this up for me. I was wondering what those buttons meant. Thanks to everyone for responding.

Neo.

[realcoasters]

Wow!
Thanks TWT!
I've been trying to figure what that means in WS_FTP forever!
Thanks Again

[TWTCommish]

LOL, glad to help...I remember what an incredibly pain it was for me too (before I'd even gotten used to installing CGI scripts)...it was a revelation for me really.



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